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On her third day of mirror exposure, Happy engages in repetitive trunk raises while backing in and out of the mirror location. This behavior appears to be a form of …
Elephants Maxine and Patty show investigative behavior on the first day of mirror exposure. Maxine climbs the wall to search behind the novel apparatus
The shy and timid Tasmanian devil gained its reputation for fierceness in part from its ferocious-looking yawn when cornered or frightened
The bizarre-looking Australian native takes a swim. (Still Image: JohnCarnemolla/iStock)
After molting (note the discarded shell in the background), a black-backed land crab struggles to move its flimsy new exoskeleton
Caretakers feed the new baby clouded leopards at the Zoo’s research facility in Virginia
Mount Erebus in Antarctica erupts
Australian lizards adapt to rapid acceleration
Student Tiffany Riesenberg measures the velocity of a stream’s flow
In the remote Pacific, the Phoenix Islands provide an unspoiled center for marine science
Now on view at the National Air and Space Museum, See Dragon eye, the five-pound unmanned aerial vehicle, in flight
The Colorful Lionfish Under the Sea
Two lionfish in Papua New Guinea swim gracefully
Ranchers and wildlife advocates are at odds over how to handle the gray wolf’s return to the Rockies
Fifty years ago, the Amazon comprised 14 percent of the Earth’s surface. Now, it covers just 6 percent.
Charles Babbage’s Difference Machine No. 2
The first computer is thought to be the invention of a 19th century mathematician
A remote camera captures the first-ever video of an erupting underwater volcano
Using new technologies, Smithsonian entomologists are using detailed photo of ant faces to understand the differences among the 12,000 species
Discovering Titanoboa, the World’s Largest Snake
Fossils found in Colombia indicate that a giant snake may have roamed the earth 60 million years ago
Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett’s footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the insect
The Endangered Gorillas of the Congo
In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep …
Through the science of robotics, researchers in California have created a lifelike bust of Albert Einstein to teach others, and themselves, about the breakthroughs made with robots
A chick in the process of hatching as the female adult looks on
The biological urge is too strong to resist for penguin chicks as they fledge and dive into the water for the first time.
Fallow deer are the first species outside of primates to be able to make auditory discernment of social dominance
An adult penguin, recently back from a foraging trip, responds to the cheeping of its two-week-old chick and feeds it
New technologies helped marine archaeologists recover the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine
Venture into Virunga National Park with Smithsonian writer Paul Raffaele as he examines the threats facing mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paul Raffaele explores gorilla tourism, raising gorillas in captivity and the future of the Congo mountain gorillas
Learn about this often misunderstood creature
A crow named Icarus uses a short tool to extract a long tool, which he then uses to fish out a piece of meat.
Take a virtual tour of the Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville, Georgia
Smithsonian’s Own Crime Scene Investigator
Forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley discusses the skeletal specimens in a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum (Meredith Bragg). Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-the-scientist-who-reads-bones-40315000/
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