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Caribbean box jellyfish now thriving in southern Florida
A box jellyfish from the Caribbean appears to have recently become established in the red mangroves of Florida near Boca Raton. [...more]
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New exhibition looks at fishes from the “Inside Out”
"X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out," is a new exhibition of striking x-rays that reveal the complex bone structure of fishes in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. [...more]
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Five funky and 5 fun facts about fishes
A selection of fascinating facts about fishes from the new book "Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide" [...more]
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Why did the tortoise cross the road? A recent study indicates few do.
Scientists studying genetic variation and gene flow in a population of tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in California’s Mojave Desert, were surprised recently to discover that two roads built in the desert in the 1970s had a noticeable impact on the population’s genetic structure. [...more]
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New Book: “Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide”
In this fun, accessible and informative book, ichthyologists Gene Helfman, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, and Bruce Collette, of the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provide accurate, entertaining, and sometimes surprising answers to more than 100 common and not-so-common questions. [...more]
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Why did the tortoise cross the road? A recent study indicates few do.
Scientists studying genetic variation and gene flow in a population of tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in California’s Mojave Desert, were surprised recently to discover that two roads built in the desert in the 1970s had a noticeable impact on the population’s genetic structure. [...more]
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VIDEO: Meet our Scientist Rachel Page. She studies frog-eating bats, and other animals, in Panama
Meet Rachel Page, a Smithsonian scientist in Panama who studies frog-eating bats (fringe-lipped bats), among other topics. Her current research focuses on learning and memory in neotropical bats, combining field studies with laboratory experiments to learn about predator cognition and its effects on the evolution of their prey. [...more]
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Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight, researchers find
Small monkey groups may win territorial disputes against larger groups because some members of the larger, invading groups avoid aggressive encounters. [...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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