Barro Colorado Island, One Hundred Years of Science and Discoveries
Five Panamanian scientists share a glance at the experience of working in the tropical biologist’s dream, Barro Colorado Island
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Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18,000 Plant Species for Paleontology Research, Allergy Medicine and More
Pollen from 18,000 tropical plants was digitized in Panama. The images will be used to train a machine-learning model to identify pollen grains, as part of the PollenGEO project
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A 22 Million-Year-Old Mangrove Forest Was Discovered on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island
A volcanic eruption triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing area
A Turtle Time Capsule: DNA Found in Ancient Shell
Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents collide
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