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Did Sauropods Hold their Heads High?

Orangutans

A Newly Discovered Orangutan Population on Borneo

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The Second Secret Dinosaur War

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Did Juvenile Triceratops Hang Out in Gangs?

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Picture of the Week—Lightning in a Volcanic Plume

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The Best Dinosaur Movie That Never Was

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Karijini National Park in HD

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The Unfinished Attack of the Dinosaurs

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Science Contests Across the Web

The Zoo’s three pandas, here Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, require a constant supply of bamboo, a plant that is not very nutritious, especially for animals, like pandas, that are natural carnivores.

Feeding the Animals at the National Zoo

After hiring the first animal nutritionist 30 years ago, the National Zoo prepares specific, well-balanced meals for each animal

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Why We Don’t Have a Baby Panda

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Tyrannosaurus on the Pitcher’s Mound

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Book Review: Footprints of Thunder

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Help Defend Against the Invaders

They have come to our country from all over the world, brought here in the bowels of ships, in the cargo holds of planes, even on the bottoms of our shoes

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Picture of the Week—Alabama Science Class, 1939

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Walking with Dinosaurs in Melbourne

"Woman teaching geometry" Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of Euclid's Elements (c. 1310 AD)

Female Scientists Aren’t THAT Rare

There are plenty of deserving women who never got so much as a nod.

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Mammoths are Dwarfed by Dinosaurs in Ice Age 3

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results.

Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design

Charles Babbage, the grandfather of the computer, envisioned a calculating machine that was never built, until now

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Science Writers Have Fun Today

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