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Tyrannosaurus rex more hyena than lion
The ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex has been depicted as the top dog of the Cretaceous, ruthlessly stalking herds of duck-billed dinosaurs and claiming the role of apex predator, much as the lion reigns...
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Artist’s recreation of 7- to 6-million-year-old early human unveiled in Hall...
Meet Sahelanthropus tchadensis. This newly unveiled recreation by artist John Gurche is on view in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History....
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With 800 color photographs, new book takes a fascinating look inside palms
Palms are recognized as icons of the tropics, in addition to being the source of many economically significant products that extend relevance of the group to millions of people daily. Striking...
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Fossil skull of an extinct toothed whale excavated from Panamanian sediments
A scientist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute uses a pick to dislodge the fossil skull of an extinct toothed whale from sediments on the Panamanian Coast near the town of Piña....
View ArticleMeet Our Scientist–Briana Pobiner, human origins researcher at the National...
Digging up early human and animal remains from the field in Africa, performing examination and publishing research about her findings, then enticing and educating the public about the implications are...
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New 20-foot extinct species of crocodile discovered in Colombian coal mine
Did an ancient crocodile relative give the world’s largest snake a run for its money? In a new study in the journal Palaeontology, University of Florida and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute...
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New dinosaur species named from hatchling fossil donated to National Museum...
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with help from amateur fossil hunter Ray Stanford, have described a previously unknown armored dinosaur hatchling from a fossil...
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Ancient whales
This illustration by Carl Buell depicts Ocucajea picklingi (center) and Supayacetus muizoni (bottom), two ancient whales that lived off the Peruvian coast during the Eocene, between 56-34 million years...
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Details of ancient shark attack preserved in fossil whale bone
A fragment of whale rib found in a North Carolina strip mine is offering scientists a rare glimpse at the interactions between prehistoric sharks and whales some 3- to 4-million years ago during the...
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Wayne Clough & Carlos Jaramillo, at a research site near the Panama Canal.
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough, left, talks with Carlos Jaramillo, scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, at a research site near the Panama Canal. Jaramillo and his...
View ArticleConrad Labandiera, Smithsonian palentologist, studies fossils to learn how...
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Insect mimic of ginko-like leaf discovered 165 million years after its...
A new species of hangingfly with wings that perfectly mimic the multi-lobed leaf of an ancient ginkgo-like tree has been discovered in China by scientists from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...
View ArticleHow do paleontologists reconstruct environments from the ancient past?
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View ArticleReplicating whale fossils found in Chile
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Scientists find impact of open-ocean industrial fishing within centuries of...
The impact of industrial fishing on coastal ecosystems has been studied for many years. But how it affects food webs in the open ocean―a vast region that covers almost half of the Earth’s surface―has...
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