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Welcome to our latest blog—Dinosaur Tracking

In our “Dinosaur Tracking” blog, we’ll delve into everyone’s favorite extinctanimal group and the lost worlds they so nobly inhabited

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Sesame Street Redux and Jim Henson’s Fantastic World

Watch “Around the Mall” bloggers sit down and talk with a few old friends from Sesame Street

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The Miracle of the Reef

Coral spawn only once a year, and at night; how they manage to synchronize remains a mystery

Great white shark with its mouth open.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more

The Cassowary bird at Lahore Zoo.

Invasion of the Cassowaries

Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?

For some people in the region (Chapel of All Saints, San Luis, Colorado), the DNA results have been a revelation.

Cracking the Code of the Human Genome

The ‘Secret Jews’ of San Luis Valley

In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics

Scrapped fishing boats in Fort Bragg (salvagers Bruce Abernathy and his son David) testify to the sharp decline of chinook salmon.

On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon

For the first time there’s no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.

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How Breast Cancer Genes Work

Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely

Still life: Fall chum

For Salmon Fishermen, It’s Fall Chum to the Rescue

For the Yup’ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world

Amid the city’s ribbons of freeway and corporate spires, says the author, the sky offers "a huge, open relief."

Southern Comfort

Celebrated poet Mark Doty succumbs to Houston’s humid charms

Iran's anger over decades of foreign meddling in its internal affairs reached its apex in the 1979 revolution.

Inside Iran’s Fury

Scholars trace the nation’s antagonism to its history of domination by foreign powers

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Letters

Readers respond to the August Issue

"No one else would be up here"—Montana's Little Belt Mountains in winter—except Gerald Mack, with his horse, Sky, and dog, Cisco Kid, a rancher told the photographer.

The Cowboy in Winter

Gerald Mack lived the life—and photographer Sam Abell went along for the ride

Paradisea raggiana is one of the many images at the Galaxy of Knowledge Web site.

Life Lines

"Spirits are taking up residence in the museum; nothing is as it seem, even in this photograph," says game director John Maccabee

Get Your Game On

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tech-savvy players gather clues in the alternate reality game “Ghosts of a Chance”

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