Animals

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Wild Animals Are Not Pets

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Pollinating crickets, the longest migration, puffed up toads and more...

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Octopuses, Dinosaurs, Pandas and More...

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Vanishing dinosaurs, breeding birds, redback spiders and more

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Nine Wildlife Stories You Should Have Read This Year

From geoducks to the Cahaba, here's what you missed

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Butterfly GPS, glowing mushrooms, bat-hunting songbirds and more

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Geckos, tiny dinosaurs, cave man couture, and more

A National Postal Museum exhibition includes postage stamps that President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped design. FDR's stamps helped him relax.

From the Castle - FDR's Stamps

FDR's Stamps

Peter Alsop was formerly the managing editor of Tricycle magazine and senior editor of GOOD magazine.

Peter Alsop on "Invasion of the Longhorns"

Everything that lives on the Galapagos Islands now flew in on the wind, rode a freak current, or floated on a raft of vegetation.

Top Ten Places Where Life Shouldn't Exist... But Does

Smithsonian lists the most improbable, inhospitable and absurd habitats on Earth

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Toucans, Orchids, Monkeys and more

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Happy Trails, Zoo's Hippo Heads West

Giant kangaroo

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Hungry snakes, giant kangaroos, bat noses, and more

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Dog faces, the history of laughter, snakes, and bird warning calls

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Tiny Lungless Salamander Discovered in Georgia

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum

Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough travels to Nairobi, Kenya to understand the research programs and opportunities at the Mpala Research Centre.

Day 1: Seeing Kenya from the Sky

Despite many travel delays, Smithsonian Secretary Clough arrives in Kenya ready to study the African wildlife at the Mpala Ranch

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Flight of the hummingbird, termite cloning and the rise of the octopus

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Rainforest Creatures Caught on Camera

Richard Conniff has been writing for Smithsonian magazine since 1982. His latest work is titled, "Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals."

Richard Conniff’s Wildlife Writing

International journalist Richard Conniff has reported on animals that fly, swim, crawl and leap in his 40 years of writing

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