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So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...
The Legend of Oriental Pied Hornbill is China's first documentary on the rare species. It narrates the conservation story of ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNCarnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger?It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...
The kids and I read Ohi’s latest book in the spring, as we were working through our goal of reading every picture book ...
“To study a fossil animal is, to me, a sort of creation,” says Dal Sasso, a paleontologist at Italy’s Natural History Museum of Milan. “You have to resurrect an animal from fragments.” ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNThese Tiny, Beautiful Fossils Detail the History of the OceanMost foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...
Following the Nielson Report on the status and influence of Asian Americans in the US CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA summarises the extent to which persons of Indian origin particularly Hindus have contributed t ...
Independence Dam State Park in Defiance, Ohio exists in that rare sweet spot where natural beauty meets blissful obscurity – a place where the Maumee River carves its ancient path through northwest ...
Truth is, we don’t know how the Tree of Life will fall, and we don’t know when. It could happen in five years, in 40 years, ...
When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...
Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...
A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...
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