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Death from the Skies!

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“Chinasaurs” Invade Maryland

The traveling exhibit, “Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Dynasty,” is filled with the skeletons of dinosaurs that roamed China millions of years ago

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Picture of the Week—Project Pebble

The University of Cambridge Department of Engineering hosted a photography contest earlier this year, and the winners have just been announced

"Now it's off to the races," botanist Dave Erickson says of a project to barcode 250 species of plant life on Plummers Island.

Cracking the DNA Code

On a small island near Washington, D.C., Smithsonian researchers have found a genetic code that could revolutionize botany

The 190-mile-long Cahaba River is home to many rare species, some of which were thought to be extinct.  The showy Cahaba lily (at Halfmile Shoals) thrives in clean, clear, rapidly flowing water.

The Cahaba: A River of Riches

An unsung Alabama waterway is one of the most biologically diverse places in the nation, home to rare flora and fauna

At an 18th-century auction in Amsterdam, Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter sold for about one-third the amount that its owner spent to obtain a then rare Conus gloriamaris shell.

Mad About Seashells

Collectors have long prized mollusks for their beautiful exteriors, but for scientists, it’s what inside that matters

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