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This is a sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and it looks like a leaf because it has acquired chloroplasts from its algal prey and stored them in its gut lining
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In preparation for tomorrow’s big day, I offer you a selection of articles on the theme of turkey science:How did the turkey in my oven get so big?
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One of the first Smithsonian articles I worked on was last year’s Guerrillas in Their Midst, about the endangered mountain gorillas of Rwanda and Congo
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With the announcement that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, it seems natural to ask when we will finally see live mammoths
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It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones
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…the antilopine wallaroo, a type of kangaroo that lives in wet, tropical areas of Australia
Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions
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No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition
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Megeleledone setebos (bottom left), an octopus species endemic to the Southern Ocean, surrounded by related octopus species that evolved in the deep-sea
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Bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs
Bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs
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Wild giraffes are making a comeback despite having to compete for resources with some of the world's poorest people
Niger's giraffes and our 16th president
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Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?
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Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more
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California's lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans
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