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AMNH Science News Feed

• New Research on Rapidly-Disappearing Ancient Plant Offers Hope for Species Recovery
  Thumbnail: /science/images/cibrian_cycad_2010_thumb75.jpg Featured: false Genetic Analysis of Guam's Cydads Shows Promising Genetic Diversity
  
  
• Rain of Giant Gas Clouds Create Active Galactic Nuclei
  New Research Explains How Galaxy Centers Light Up
  
  
• New Approach Helps Teachers Integrate Conservation Biology Into High School Ecology Classes
  Study Shows Real Data and Relevant Video Presentations Make Environmental Issues Come Alive in Classroom
  
  
• Scientists Describe Two New Species of Fish From Area Engulfed by Oil Spill
  Thumbnail: /science/images/sparks_gulf_2010_thumb75.jpg Featured: false New Species of Pancake Batfishes Discovered in the Gulf of Mexico
  
  
• Demoting a Dinosaur
  New fossil material re-defines azendohsaurus as a peculiar early reptile
  
  
• Bees That Nest in Petals
  Scientists From the U.S., Turkey, Switzerland, and Iran Describe the Nest of an Uncommon Solitary Bee
  
  
• Rose Center to go to Space
  Component Crafted at American Museum of Natural History Will Launch With the James Webb Space Telescope
  
  
• Mercury is Higher in Some Tuna Species According to DNA Barcoding
  New Research Provides Insight into Healthier Consumption of Sushi
  
  
• The New T. Rex: A leech With an Affinity For Noses
  New Genus and Species of Leech Discovered by Doctors in Amazonian Peru
  
  
• Harnessing the Web and Supercomputers to Track Pathogens as They Evolve
  New Tool to Stop Disease Outbreaks and Inform National Security
  
  
• International Team of Scientists Describe First Cretaceous African Amber Deposit
  A Forest from the Dinosaur Era Discovered in Ethiopian Amber
  
  
• Simulations Solve a 20-Year Old Riddle About Why Nebulae Around Massive Stars Don't Disappear
  Nebulae Around Stars with Girth Flicker Like Candles
  
  
• Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to Caves is Reversible
  New Evidence That Specialized Adaptations are Not Evolutionary Dead Ends
  
  
• South Korean Shamans Fluidly Absorb Cultural Change
  A New Book from an American Museum of Natural History Anthropologist Explores Traditional Spirituality in a Rapidly Developing World
  
  
• Grizzly Bears Move Into Polar Bear Habitat in Manitoba, Canada
  Competition From Other Bears May Threaten a Polar Bear Population
  
  
• How Earth Survived Birth
  New Simulation Presented at Astronomy Meeting Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun
  
  
• John Flynn Elected as AAS Fellow
  American Museum of Natural History Curator Honored for Innovative Research on Fossil Mammals and Directing the new Richard Gilder Graduate School
  
  
• Scientifically Rendering the Known Universe For All to See
  New Video Goes Viral
  
  
• Fossil Shelved for a Century Reworks Carnivore Family Tree
  A New Look at Limbs Changes Understanding of Early Carnivore Locomotion
  
  
• Late-Surviving Megafauna Exposed by Ancient DNA in Frozen Soil
  Extinct Mammoth and Horse Lingered Thousands of Years Longer than Expected
  
  
• Rare Fossil Forces Rethinking of Early Dinosaur Evolution
  New Fossil Theropod Found at New Mexico's Ghost Ranch
  
  
• A Faint Star Orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor Discovered
  Project 1640 Sees the Unknown Using a Novel Technique Known to Galileo
  
  
• Richard Gilder Graduate School Receives Full Accreditation
  Historic Vote Establishes AMNH as First American Museum Approved to Grant PH.D. Degrees
  
  
• Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of On the Origin of Species
  Digitizing Thousands of Charles Darwin's Drafts and Notebooks
  
  
• Unknowingly Consuming Endangered Tuna
  A Genetic Tool Uncovers the Species of Tuna Plated in Sushi Restaurants
  
  
• Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-Like
  Archaeopteryx Lacked Rapid Bone Growth, The Hallmark of Birds
  
  
• Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts
  Tipping Point in Planet Formation Found by New Simulations
  
  
• Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur From Asia Described
  Carnivorous But Smaller T. Rex Relative Shared Environment with Larger Cousins
  
  
• Getting a Leg Up on Whale and Dolphin Evolution
  New Comprehensive Analysis Sheds Light on the Origin of Cetaceans
  
  
• Barcoding Endangered Sea Turtles
  Demonstrating that Short Genetic Sequences Identify Migratory Marine Species
  
  
• The First DNA Barcodes of Commonly Traded Bushmeat are Published
  A New Tool Proved for Tracking the Global Trade in Wildlife
  
  
• Moths Cloaked in Color
  Reexamination of Parallel Evolution in Diurnal Neotropical Moths Appears in
  
  
• Finding Leeches in Rwanda
  Herbert Lang and James Chapin Embarked on a Scientific Expedition to the Northeastern Belgian Congo
  
  
• Jade Sheds Light on Guatemala's Geologic History
  New Research Shows Complex Plate Tectonic Movement Along the Motagua Fault
  
  
• Endangered Species Get a Chilly (and warm!) Reception in New York City
  U.S. National Park Service Will Preserve DNA Samples in AMNH's Cryo Collection
  
  
• Be a Bee Watcher
  The Great Pollinator Project Recruits Citizen Scientists for the Third Year
  
  
• American Museum of Natural History Joins National Effort to Transform Math and Science Education as Recommended by New Carnegie Corporation Commission Report
  Urban Advantage Science Education Initiative Highlighted in Commission Report
  
  
• American Museum of Natural History Has Announced 2009 Young Naturalist Awards Winners
  Twelve Students From Across the United States and Canada Include Three Repeat Winners from Texas, Maryland, and New York
  
  
• Wiping Out the World's Mass Migrations
  First Analysis of the Effect of Habitat Changes on Migrating Grazers
  
  
• Smart and Social?
  Comprehensive Analysis Questions Link Between Sociality and Brain Increase in Carnivores
  
  
• New Analysis Shows 'Hobbits' Couldn't Hustle
  The Feet of Homo Floresiensis Were Primitive But Not Pathological
  
  
• Museum Specimens Aid Conservation Effort in Madagascar
  Records Test Competing Theories About the Evolution of Local Species
  
  
• Digging Up Evidence of 400-Year Old Global Trade and Wealth
  Largest 17th Century Bead Repository Found in Coastal Georgia First Evidence of Spanish Beadmaking
  
  
• The Names Within the Names
  AMNH Scientists Honored With an Array of Scientific Names
  
  
• Was Triceratops a Social Animal?
  Yes, According to a New Fossil Discovery in Montana's Homer Site
  
  
• Oldest Fossil Brain Found in Kansas
  Shark Relative that Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen
  
  
• American Museum of Natural History to Unveil Disaply of Spectacular Opals
• 'Great Speciators' Explained: It's Intrinsic
  White Eyes Diversity Across a Hemispheric Range Faster than any Other Bird
  
  
• Move Over Sponges
  New Evidence from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics Confirms Placozoans Are the Closest Living Surrogate to the Ancestor of All Animals
  
  
• Fish Out of Water
  New Species of Climbing Fish from Remote Venezuela Shakes the Catfish Family Tree