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Just Our Type: Smithsonian’s Dinosaur Skeleton Becomes the Scientific Standard for Prehistoric Predator

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Smithsonian-led Study Reveals Five New Species of Soft-Furred Hedgehogs From Southeast Asia

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Researchers, Coast Salish People Analyze 160-Year-Old Indigenous Dog Pelt in the Smithsonian’s Collection

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National Museum of Natural History Announces Dorothy Lippert as Repatriation Program Manager

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Smithsonian To Host Symposium Focused on Endangered Rice’s Whale in Partnership With NOAA, Marine Mammal Commission

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Smithsonian To Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample Collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission

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More Than 800 Human-Harvested Shellfish Species Tend To Be More Resistant to Extinction

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Analysis Reveals Ancestry, Possible Descendants of Enslaved and Free African Americans

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Humans’ Evolutionary Relatives Butchered One Another 1.45 Million Years Ago

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New Smithsonian Exhibition Examines the Cultural Nature of Cellphones

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