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Seasons creepings! This Halloween, get to know some animals who don’t deserve to have such fearsome reputations… and some that you might not want to encounter alone on a moonlit night.
related to spiders and scorpions than crabs—have existed on Earth for over 445 million

Grevy’s zebras are the largest zebra species. They have thicker stripes and bigger ears than other zebras. They are also the most threatened. Fewer than an estimated 2,500 remain in the wild.
Fossils found in China and Uzbekistan, as well as a two million-year-old fossil found

Robert Rice’s research centers around the intersection of humankind’s most intimate relation with the earth—agricultural production—and the impact this has upon physical and social landscapes, with special attention to environmental and social change. His work is directed toward land use studies related to migratory bird habitat. Rice’s approach draws upon agroecology and incorporates land use practices and policy in Latin America and the U.S., with a focus on agroforestry systems and their linkages, impacts and benefits within the ecological and social realms.
Sales of Bird Friendly Organic Coffee Grown To Smithsonian Criteria Reach $3.5 Million

Animal care staff at the National Zoo welcomed a new resident to Elephant Trails May 22—Bozie, a 37-year-old female Asian elephant. She arrived safely and is now in quarantine for approximately 30 days.
opened and marked the completion of Elephant Trails, the Zoo’s seven-year, $56 million

From conserving resources and diverting waste to sustainable design and public engagement, the Zoo strives to make sustainability a core component of our mission to save species.
in 2017, the energy savings performance contract has helped conserve more than 1 million

Andy Boyce is a Research Ecologist at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Migratory Bird Center. His work focuses on 1) understanding how keystone species and grazing systems impact biodiversity in grassland ecosystems; and 2) what factors regulate populations of imperiled grassland birds at all stages of the annual cycle.
Elusive Bird September 11, 2020 Bison and Lobsters: Neighbors Separated by 75 Million

The class Anthozoa (under the phylum Cnidaria) includes corals, anemones, sea pens and seafans. Anthozoa consists of 10 orders and thousands of species. Adults are attached to the seabed, but their larvae are free-floating and can drift to new settlements.
The fossil record of Anthozoa extends back 550 million years.

The National Zoo’s three new female Asian elephants—Kamala (39), Swarna (39) and Maharani (23)—made their public debut in one of the outdoor yards on Elephant Trails for the first time Monday, June 23.
Rubenstein contributed $2 million, enabling the National Zoo to bring the elephants

The cubs are back on the webcam, but bigger and with a bite! Read on for more.
It was like she had done it a million times before.

Mary Hagedorn has been a Research Scientist at the Smithsonian Institution for the past 20 years. She has worked in aquatic ecosystems around the world from the Amazon to Africa, has taught many university-level classes, lectures frequently to lay audiences, maintains an active laboratory with graduate students and post docs, and is a successful researcher and active grant writer. Hagedorn’s innovative, interdisciplinary work uses basic science to address conservation challenges for threatened coral reefs.
In the past years, she has received several multi-million dollar research grants