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Smithsonian's newest blog tracks the latest developments in the field of human evolution
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A 1990s high school romance flick takes an odd turn when an animatronic dinosaur gets the Frankenstein treatment
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Many newly hatched sauropods were so diminutive that they could have stood in the palm of your hand. A new reconstruction goes on display this month
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Just how many different dinosaurs existed in North America during the end of the Cretaceous? It's a matter of huge debate
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Albert Einstein called Emmy Noether a "creative mathematical genius"
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Two scientists are in a grim contest to document some of the animal kingdom's most endangered species
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As a way of working, it's wide-open, competitive, nit-picky and nerve-wracking; it's outright warfare
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The quarry wall strewn with hundreds of bones representing some of the most famous dinosaurs is now open to the public again
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The sign makes me smile every time. It was made when the massive sauropod dinosaurs were thought to spend most of their time in water
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The show's setting in a lush, 85-million-year-old jungle may be unique, but the tempo follows many of the standard TV tropes
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There are 200 million European starlings in North America, and they are a menace
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This rare and dangerous element, discovered by Marie Curie, is found in cigarettes and was used to poison an ex-KGB agent
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Mountaineering park ranger Brandon Latham talks about how engineers investigated the monument from hundreds of feet above the ground
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Sea monster mamas, bat signals and opossum versus viper
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Competitive vegetable growers are closing in on an elusive goal—the one ton squash
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A bold plan for wildlife corridors that connect populations from Mexico to Argentina could mean the big cat's salvation
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High in the Himalayas, the Tibetan bunting is getting help from a very special friend
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One appeared on the very top of one of the highest fingers and grasped the tip in what appeared to be a moment of victory: King of the Hill
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A visit to Munich meant a pilgrimage to the paleontology museum
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