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Dispatch from AAAS—Naming the 1000th Steve

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago

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Dispatch from AAAS—The Greater Sage Grouse Fembot

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago

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Darwin Rocks

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The Sauropods of Star Wars

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Pictures of the Week—Orchids

Able to identify the orchids in these photos?

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Ornithological Data From Your Own Backyard

It’s time to fill up the birdfeeders, pull out the field guide, and polish your binocular lenses

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Darwin and the Dinosaurs

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The Year of Charles Darwin Ultimate Tour (Part 2)

Back in December, I wondered if you could plan an itinerary for the entire year in which everything you did was Darwin-related

Soldier beetles mate on a bed of flowers.

The Curious Do’s and Don’ts of Insect Dating Behavior

Bugs tap, dance and buzz to attract their mates—and some get eaten

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Give Me a Mesozoic Mind

Black jaguars, like the cub on the left, have a mutation that causes them to produce more of the pigment melanin than spotted jaguars do.

Evolution in Black and White

The alternative color forms of some animals are providing new insights into how animals adapt and evolve

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A Melting Antarctica Could Bring an Underwater Smithsonian

Some unknown day in the future, ongoing climate change virtually assures the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt away

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Abel’s Tyrannosaurus

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Triceratops v. Triceratops

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