Continental Crash Date Debate
January 30, 2012The Isthmus of Panama joined North and South America and separated the Atlantic from the Pacific. It also radically altered the world’s climate and set the scene for a great interchange of plants and animals...
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Celebrate Biodiversity at School
January 30, 2012Enhanced teacher training is key to this pilot program designed to teach children in Phoenix and Panamá more about biodiversity and cultural awareness...
Rachel Page Heads Animal Care Committee
January 30, 2012Director Eldredge Bermingham named Staff Scientist Rachel Page as the new head of STRI’s IACUC...
Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru
January 23, 2012Peruvians ate popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously reported, according to an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences coauthored by Dolores Piperno...
Rainforest Connection Live!
January 23, 2012The Rainforest Connection is celebrating its 10th anniversary of bringing researchers and educators together via webconferencing technology into classrooms around the world...
Jeffrey B. Graham (1941-2011)
January 23, 2012Jeffrey B. Graham, a research physiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died of cancer at his home in San Diego, Calif., on Dec. 8, 2011...
New ANAM Guard Post in Coiba National Park
January 23, 2012On Jan. 13, the Smithsonian, ANAM and Conservation International inaugurated a new guard post on Isla Canal de Afuera, in the northeast sector of Coiba National Park...
Distant Relatives Become New Species
January 16, 2012Species believed to have the same recent ancestor are grouped into a genus...
Encyclopedia of Life Meeting on Barro Colorado Island
January 16, 2012Imagine that you could identify every known species of life on Earth using your smartphone...
Tilting at Windmills Will Pay Off
January 16, 2012The first wind turbines in Panama have been installed at the Smithsonian’s Galeta Point Marine Laboratory near the Caribbean entrance of the Panama Canal...