The humble salamander may provide evidence to support a controversial claim that North and South America were joined together much earlier than previously thought. The two continents are generally believed to have been joined together...
Going for the gut will soon become standard protocol for scientists working to unravel the complex living web of interactions between plants and animals on Earth a recent groundbreaking Smithsonian study predicts. In the study...
According to legend St. Patrick (circa 387–460 or 492 AD) banished all snakes from Ireland, chasing them into the sea after they attacked him during a 40-day fast atop a hill. Today we suspect that...
Small migratory male birds that winter in a stressful environment age faster than those that winter in a high-quality habitat, according to research stemming from a collaborative National Science Foundation grant between the University of...
Forget the deep forest, “today the highest densities of deer in the state of Virginia are in suburbia,” says William McShea, ecologist and research scientist at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va.
Chris Crowe, keeper of the National Zoo’s 15 white-naped cranes, is well acquainted with the strong attachments these graceful Asian birds form with their mates.
The process of freezing materials such as fertilized eggs – cryopreservation – provides researchers with a tool to repopulate endangered species.
Domestic cats in the United States kill some 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals each year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles according to the New York Times in a...
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