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• Newly discovered Madagascar spider spins largest, toughest webs on record

  In zoology / 2 October 2010 / 5 comments

  

  Darwin’s bark spider cast giant webs across streams, rivers and lakes, suspending the web’s orb above water and attaching it to plants on each riverbank. Bridgelines of these water-spanning webs have been measured as long as 25 meters.

   

• Meet Our Scientist–Helen James dives into dormant Hawaiian volcanoes to find bird fossils

  In Meet Our Scientists, Video / 1 October 2010 / 0 comments

  

  Smithsonian Scientist Helen James dives into dormant Hawaiian volcanoes to find bird fossils. Her work to identify these species (some new species, some extinct) helps us learn about the past–specifically, how humans might have caused the extinction of certain bird species.