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Climate Change Temperatures Can Modify Tiny Structures Such as the Scales of the Dazzling Morpho Butterflies

Toby Kiers

Fungi Expert Is on a Mission to Protect Global Natural Underground Networks

Making Bird Friendly cocoa

Cerro La Vieja: Cocoa that Protects Nature, Chocolate that Feeds the Soul

Brígida de Gracia

A New Species of Fossil Fish From Panama Named After STRI Ngäbe Researcher

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Drawing Out the Secrets of Coral Reef Resilience to High Ocean Temperatures

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Monkey-Nappers! A Group of Capuchin Monkeys Caught on Camera With Abducted Baby Howler Monkeys

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Birds by Day, Bats by Night: Paired Long-Term Census of Bats and Birds Starts in Panama

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NASA Is Studying Tropical Ecosystems by Linking the Ground, Air and Space

Fungi in Barro Colorado Island

How Even the Smallest Organisms Can Shape Entire Ecosystems and Inspire Lasting Change

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Possible Caterpillar-Like Baby Hummingbird Discovered in Panama

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Bezos Earth Fund Gives $2 Million Grant to Launch Groundbreaking Amphibian Conservation Project Across Latin America

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Smarter Foragers Do Not Forage Smarter

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Indigenous Marine Scientist Studies Fish Feeding Evolution in Panama

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Red Flags: I'm Not the Bug for You

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A 22 Million-Year-Old Mangrove Forest Was Discovered on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island

Joshua Tewksbury

Why the World Needs a Standard Measure for Counting Carbon

Dr. Ruth Bennett holding Summer Tanager

Drink Coffee, Eat Chocolate, Save Birds!

Tree Frog

Barro Colorado Island, One Hundred Years of Science and Discoveries

Bat lands on a speaker to collect a baitfish reward

Does This Ring a Bell? Wild Bats Can Remember Sounds for Years

Ricardo Moreno on the field

Can Humans and Jaguars Coexist? A Wildlife Biologist Uses Technology and Education to Reduce Conflict

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