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Inside the Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning
But whether or not they realize it, many thousands of clones have already been produced as the cloning process has become ...
Endangered black-footed ferrets born at Smithsonian National Zoo
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute celebrated the birth of a litter of endangered black-footed ...
Imported ladybird beetles save Grenada's ice cream fruit
When Laurel Williams thinks of soursop, she thinks of ice cream. Not just any ice cream, but the one made from the soursop ...
Smithsonian Magazine6h
Black-Footed Ferret Webcam Launches on National Zoo Website
Viewers can watch a litter of black-footed ferrets and their mother, 3-year-old Aristides, on a temporary live webcam.
Three new orchid species endemic to Costa Rica and Panama discovered
Three new orchid species from the genus Pleurothallis have been discovered in the cloud forests of Costa Rica and western ...
Scientific American14h
Black Death Plague That Killed Millions Became Less Fatal because of This Genetic Tweak
Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10h
Scientists Find the First Evidence of Birds Nesting in the Arctic Alongside Dinosaurs
The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...
Smithsonian Institution6h
Black-Footed Ferrets Born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets last week. Three-year-old ...