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Fossil teeth of 15-million-year-old browsing horse found in Panama Canal excavations.

Fossil teeth of 15-million-year-old browsing horse found in Panama Canal excavations.

The fossil teeth of a 15- to 18-million-year-old three-toed browsing horse, Anchitherium clarencei, were recently discovered by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the University of Florida. They found the teeth during excavations of  newly exposed rock in the earthworks of the Panama Canal. Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum [...] [...more]

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Fossils Show Prehistoric Global Warming

Fossils Show Prehistoric Global Warming

For those who think that global warming is a 21st-century phenomenon, Scott Wing, a scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, has news about the past. [...more]

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This short video of an ocelot was taken by Smithsonian scientists during a recent camera-trap survey of these animals in the Peruvian Amazon.[...more]

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