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Video: Meet our Scientist–Mark Torchin tracks invasive marine species and their parasites in Panama

Video: Meet our Scientist–Mark Torchin tracks invasive marine species and their parasites in Panama

Mark Torchin, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, talks about how he studies the parasites of invasive marine animals such as snails. Much of his research focuses on biological invasions and the dynamics between the host, the parasites and the surrounding ecosystem. [...more]

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VIDEO: Meet our Scientist Rachel Page. She studies frog-eating bats, and other animals, in Panama

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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How photography has transformed the study of spiders and their webs

How photography has transformed the study of spiders and their webs

Jonathan Coddington, Curator of Spiders at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History describes how photography has transformed the study of arachnids. [...more]

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Video: The artistry of Tlingit weaving is practiced by a dedicated few including artists Teri Rofkar and Shelly Laws of Alaska

Video: The artistry of Tlingit weaving is practiced by a dedicated few including artists Teri Rofkar and Shelly Laws of Alaska

It takes a Tlingit artist up to 2,000 hours, or 83 days, to weave just one ceremonial robe. Not surprisingly, this art form is practiced by a dedicated few including Tlingit artists Teri Rofkar and Shelly Laws of Alaska. In their presentation for the Smithsonian Spotlight series hosted by the Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum, Rofkar and Laws discuss the methods and cultural significance of robes, spruce root baskets and more. For more information, go to http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/alaska.htm [...more]

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Members of the Human Origins Program team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History describe why they love their job.

Members of the Human Origins Program team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History describe why they love their job.

Members of the Human Origins Program team at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History describe why they love their job. [...more]

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VIDEO: One-of-a-kind diplomatic gifts to the President in the Smithsonian’s Anthropology Department collections

VIDEO: One-of-a-kind diplomatic gifts to the President in the Smithsonian’s Anthropology Department collections

Anthropologist Deborah Hull-Walski discusses the range and significance of presidential and diplomatic gifts held in the collections of the Anthropology Department at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. [...more]

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Meet Our Scientist: Justin Touchon, Frog Follower at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama

Meet Our Scientist: Justin Touchon, Frog Follower at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama

Meet Smithsonian scientist Justin Touchon, a National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Justin's work focuses on developmental ecology and reproductive plasticity of the hourglass treefrog (Dendropsophus ebraccatus) and red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas). Justin and his advisor, Karen Warkentin, were the first to have witnessed the frogs laying eggs in water, in addition to doing so on land -- something with major implications for the evolutionary biology of similar creatures. [...more]

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Meet Our Scientist: Rachel Collin, an expert in the evolution and development of snails who is working in Panama

Meet Our Scientist: Rachel Collin, an expert in the evolution and development of snails who is working in Panama

Meet Rachel Collin, a staff scientist and director of the Bocas Research Station at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Rachel studies the evolution of marine gastropods (snails) and oversees multiple disciplines of marine biology at the Collin Lab in Bocas del Toro. [...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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