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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York will host the traveling exhibition “ Clearly Indigenous: ...
As the keeper of memory for the nation, it is our privilege and responsibility to tell accurate and complete histories. As ...
The Smithsonian pollen collection housed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Smithsonian’s National ...
Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of ...
“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults ...
In popular culture, the Sopwith Camel was Snoopy’s plane of choice. The anthropomorphic dog in the “Peanuts” comic strip, one ...
Smithsonian Associates has produced educational and entertaining learning experiences since September 1965, when ...
Thomas Akre, head of the Turtle Conservation Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...
The extinction of the passenger pigeon is a poignant example of what happens when the interests of man clash with the interests of nature. It is believed that this species once constituted 25 to 40 ...
This introductory text is pulled from the 1957 Smithsonian Publication "Automobiles and Motorcycles in the U.S. National Museum" written by curator Smith Hempstone Oliver. At present a large number of ...