Tag Archives: Biodiversity

Rare Iridescent Snake Discovered in Vietnam

Scientists discovered a new species of odd-scaled burrowing snakes in northern Vietnam. (American Society of [...]

Baby Vampire Bat Adopted by Mom’s Best Friend

Foster mother, BD, feeds her adopted vampire bat pup in a captive bat colony at [...]

Why We Need to Save the Parasites

Bat ticks (Ornithodoros) under a microscope. These parasites primarily feed on bats and were collected [...]

Bison Mummies Help Scientists Ruminate on Ancient Climate

This mummified steppe bison was donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in [...]

Tiny Plants in a Big Changing World

Bryophytes in the tropics are threatened due to lack of information and research. (Jorge Alemán, [...]

A Young Comic Book Heroine Travels Through Panama’s Deep History

Illustration from the graphic novel ‘Martina and the Bridge of Time’ by Aaron O’Dea and [...]

New Study Pushes Origins of Human-Driven Global Change Back Thousands of Years

Landscapes have been managed by humans for thousands of years – some sustainably, others less [...]

Watch These Two Videos and You Will Feel More Hopeful About the Future of Tropical Forests

Happy Earth Day 2021! Hillary Hughes, Panamanian actress, visits the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Agua [...]

Watch What Happens When A Coral Reef Can’t Get Enough Oxygen

From the surface, the havoc caused on a coral reef by a layer of low-oxygen [...]

Biodiversity Loss Despite a Century of Protection

Many terrestrial birds disappeared in Barro Colorado Island, in the Panama Canal, despite their abundance [...]

Scientists Cryopreserve and Revive Coral Fragments in a World First for Conservation

For the first time ever, researchers have succeeded in cryopreserving and reviving pieces of adult [...]

Fantastical Art Joins Hundreds of Blooming Orchids to Shed Light on Conservation Efforts

A roomful of hundreds of blooming orchids is always a spectacular sight. But Smithsonian Gardens [...]

Dive Into the Exotic World of Nudibranchs, the Spectacular Slugs of the Sea

When he picks me up at the airport, Gary Cobb is wearing a nudibranch baseball [...]

The Arctic’s Seed-Filled Doomsday Fortress

© RelaxedPace/iStock.com Beyond the Arctic Circle lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world’s largest [...]

9 of the World’s Deepest Lakes

Deep lakes hold a special place in the human imagination. The motif of a bottomless [...]