Disparate views from on high
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A Year of Wild Things — Orcas, Alligators, Caterpillars, Lizards, and More!
The Wild Things column in the magazine is, by far, the most fun part to work on
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Spiders Are Not As Old As We Thought
The oldest fossil spider was thought to be Attercopus fimbriunguis, which lived around 386 million years ago
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Earlier this year, in “On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon,” Abigail Tucker immersed herself and us in the lives of chinook salmon
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Some Whispering Bats Might Need a New Name
These whispering bats never really whispered. Their echolocations were thought to be about 70 decibels, about the level of sound coming from speaking
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Primatologist’s Prison Sentence Commuted
Primatologist and Amazon adventurer Marc van Roosmalen was convicted last year in Brazil of illegal wildlife trafficking and theft of government property
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The Mystery of the Missing Acorns
I was surprised to read in the Washington Post yesterday that oak trees from northern Virginia to Nova Scotia failed to produce any acorns this year
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Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears
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Picture of the Week – Is that Lettuce?
This is a sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and it looks like a leaf because it has acquired chloroplasts from its algal prey and stored them in its gut lining
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Seven Questions for Turkey Day
In preparation for tomorrow’s big day, I offer you a selection of articles on the theme of turkey science:How did the turkey in my oven get so big?
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Mountain Gorilla Rangers Negotiate Safe Passage in Congo
One of the first Smithsonian articles I worked on was last year’s Guerrillas in Their Midst, about the endangered mountain gorillas of Rwanda and Congo
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When Will There Be Herds of Mammoths?
With the announcement that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, it seems natural to ask when we will finally see live mammoths
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Sabertooth Cat: More Like a Lion or a House Cat?
It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones
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And the Next Species Predicted to Be Lost to Climate Change is…
…the antilopine wallaroo, a type of kangaroo that lives in wet, tropical areas of Australia
Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions
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No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition
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