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Smithsonian Scientists Determine Geese in Hudson River Plane Crash Were Migratory

Smithsonian Scientists Determine Geese in Hudson River Plane Crash Were Migratory

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Inside the National Museum of Natural History: Research

Inside the National Museum of Natural History: Research

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<strong>SCIENCE BRIEF:</strong><br />Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed

SCIENCE BRIEF:
Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed

The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago—18 million years before the previously accepted start date for the Andes’ rise. [...more]

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This fossil represents a new genus and species of extinct aneuretopsychid, Jeholopsyche liaoningensis, recently described in a paper in the journal ZooKeys by Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Dong Ren and ChungKun Shih of the College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing. The aneuretopsychidae are a family of long-proboscid insects that lived in Asia from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. The paper documents the first formal record of fossil Aneuretopsychidae in China. The new fossils reveal previously unknown and detailed structure of the mouthparts, antennae, head, thorax, legs and abdomen of this distinctive insect lineage.

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