It took four years, a shipwright and help from the British to create the blue whale model installed in the National Museum of Natural History
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New York's renowned veterinary hospital takes on almost anything, from a constricted boa to a mite-infested mouse to an anemic iguana
That's the advice researchers in Venezuela give volunteers who help them find and collect specimens of the world's biggest boa
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Don't be misled by their dainty appearance. These ornaments of summer are aggressive predators, amazing fliers and bizarre suitors
We all have a need to classify plants and animals, which is what the National Museum of Natural History does on a grand scale
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After studying (and eating) smaller squid for years, the Smithsonian's cephalopod man is now ready to face the biggest calamari of all
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The Mpala Research Centre offers a pristine environment for collaborative study on how humans and wildlife can coexist in the future
Found everywhere from beaches to 14,000 feet up in the Himalayas, scorpions kill more people than any other animal except snakes and bees
The story behind the Smithsonian's display tiger leads back into tiger history, man-eating and otherwise, and back to the fact that tigers are endangered
It appears to be made out of spare parts, but the only mammal equipped with a carapace is actually a model of ecological efficiency
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These ponderous pinnipeds continually set new records for diving to crushing depths; researchers are hard at work to discover just how they do it
These tiny prehistoric parasites have evolved a bold array of weapons, the better to torture their hosts
How a snake, attended by alarums and excursions, made it from an Asian jungle to the National Zoo and so to its present berth in a Smithsonian museum
At the Fourth of July Butterfly Count, devotees census swallowtails, wood-nymphs and all their colorful kin
With its cunning camouflage and some mighty morphing, a bittern can be one tough bird to find and a tough customer to boot
Punching cows and hitting the books go together at Deep Springs, a feisty college that acts like it's run by the students and it is
A nursery school at the Yerkes Primate Center gives lessons to the offspring of lab chimps on how to live like their wild-born relatives
Gentle whale sharks roam the world's warm seas but were rarely seen until an Australian gathering place was found
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