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The Long Life of a Dead Rhinoceros

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Meet the Bamboo Expert Who Rediscovered a Missing Grass

After L. A. Huffman, “A Dead Bull” from William T. Hornaday, “The Extermination of the American Bison, with a Sketch of Its Discovery and Life History,” Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1887, part 2 (1889): pl. IX.

How Yellowstone Was Saved by a Teddy Roosevelt Dinner Party and a Fake Photo in a Gun Magazine

Plate from Conchology, or, The natural history of shells. London :W. Miller,[1811]. (Biodiversity Heritage Library, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives).

Discover the World’s Largest Biodiversity Library

Portrait of Graceanna Lewis, The Underground Rail Road (1872). (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Who was Graceanna Lewis, Naturalist and Abolitionist?

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