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• SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS
  Geneticists at the American Museum of Natural History Trace the Evolution of a Disease
  May 2008
• ANNOUNCING AN EXPEDITION BLOG FEATURING TWO AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENTISTS
  The Hunt For New Species Of Social Wasps In Belize
  April 2008
• AMNH SCIENTISTS GRACE THE COVERS OF BOTH SCIENCE AND NATURE
  Papers Address Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity and Reorganization of the Tree of Life
  April 2008
• EVIDENCE OF A PLANET IN FORMATION?
  Astrophysicists Observe A Circumstellar Disk With Tell-Tale Signs of Planet Formation
  March 2008
• RESEARCHERS FIND BATS EVOLVED ABILITY TO FLY BEFORE ECHOLOCATION
  Discovery of a fossil representing the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates the animals evolved the ability to fly before they could echolocate
  February 2008
• PRIMITIVE EARLY RELATIVE OF ARMADILLOS HELPS REWRITE EVOLUTIONARY FAMILY TREE
  TWO-HUNDRED-POUND, ARMORED MAMMAL LIVED AT A TIME WHEN ANDES WERE ONE-FOURTH THEIR PRESENT HEIGHT
  December 2007
• IRIDESCENT AMMONITE GOES ON DISPLAY AT THE MUSEUM
  Dazzling iridescent fossil of an 80-million-year-old ammonite measuring two feet in diameter was discovered near Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  September 2007
• Velociraptor had feathers
  FINDING BY AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PALEONTOLOGISTS SHOWS EVEN LARGE DINOSAURS MAY HAVE BEEN FEATHERED
  September 2007
• DINOSAUR FOSSIL SHOWING EARLY SIGNS OF MINIATURIZATION NECESSARY FOR FLIGHT FOUND BY AMNH PALEONTOLOGISTS
  
  September 2007
• New research by AMNH scientists and others provides insight into planet formation
  TWO FORCES ONCE THOUGHT TO HINDER, NOW FOUND TO AID GROWTH OF LARGE BODIES ORBITING STARS
  August 2007
• Paleontologists examine the growth rings in fossilized dinosaur bones
  STUDY REVEALS TIMING OF PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL MATURITY AMONG DINOSAUR ANCESTORS TO BIRDS
  July 2007
• Discovery challenges view of dinosaurs' sudden rise
  NEW FIND AT GHOST RANCH. NEW MEXICO, SHOWS DINOSAURS COEXISTED WITH THEIR PREDECESSORS FOR 15 TO 20 MILLION YEARS
  July 2007
• Team to study bees native to New York City and the indigenous plants they pollinate.
  AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION ENLIST NEW YORKERS TO STUDY NATIVE BEES AND PLANTS
  July 2007
• The fossilized remains of two previously unknown, extinct penguin species found in Peru.
  NEW FOSSIL DISCOVERIES CHALLENGE ROLE OF CLIMATE IN EARLY PENGUIN DISTRIBUTION AND EVOLUTION
  June 2007
• The fossilized remains of an extinct, shrew-like animal found in Mongolia
  NEW FOSSIL INDICATES ORIGIN AND RISE OF MODERN MAMMALS
  June 2007
• Two American Museum of Natural History Anthropologists elected to prestigious science academies
  ANTHROPOLOGISTS ELECTED TO PRESTIGIOUS SCIENCE ACADEMIES
  June 2007
• American Museum of Natural History Scientists help demonstrate that protecting fish species can help coral reefs recover
  PROTECTING FISH SPECIES CAN HELP CORAL REEFS RECOVER
  May 2007
• The American Museum of Natural History shows that medicinal leeches misclassified for centuries
  MEDICINAL LEECHES ARE LIKELY THREE SPECIES INSTEAD OF ONE
  April 2007
• American Museum of Natural History unveils spectacular new mineral specimen
  GLITTERING HALF-TON STIBNITE SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION BY CHINESE MINERS
  April 2007
• Study Finds That Present-Day Mammals Diversified Long After Dinosaurs Went Extinct
  SCIENTIST CONTRIBUTES TO FIRST "SUPERTREE" OF MAMMALS
  March 2007
• Scientist helps prove theory about Evolution of "Dwarf" Novae
  IMAGES REVEAL LARGEST KNOWN REMNANT OF MASSIVE NOVA EXPLOSION
  March 2007
• Discovery of Gliding Mesozoic Mammal Fossil
  SMALL FURRY MAMMAL WAS CAPABLE OF GLIDING FLIGHT
  October 2006
• New Species of Dwarf Buffalo
  FINDING PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO DIMINUTIVE SPECIES ON ISLANDS
  October 2006
• Carnivorous Coelophysis Dinosaur fossil re-examined
  PALEONTOLOGISTS OVERTURN CLAIM THAT 'CANNIBALISTIC' DINOSAUR ATE ITS OWN
  September 2006
• First fossil-bearing amber discovered in western amazonian basin
  FINDING IN THE WESTERN AMAZON SUGGESTS 15-MILLION-YEAR-OLD PALEOENVIRONMENT SIMILAR TO MODERN RAIN FOREST
  September 2006
• Venomous fish species found to be widespread
  BIOLOGISTS ESTIMATE 1,200 VENOMOUS FISH SPECIES
  August 2006
• 110-million-year-old spider web
  FINDING SHOWS SPIDERS AFFECTED EVOLUTION OF EARLY INSECTS
  June 2006
• Discovery of rare jade
  PRE-COLUMBIAN JADE AXES UNEARTHED IN ANTIGUA
  June 2006
• Vietnam: A Natural History
  AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENTISTS PEN MILESTONE BOOK
  May 2006
• Charles S. Spencer
  AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGIST ELECTED TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
  May 2006
• Amphibians
  BIOLOGISTS COMPLETE LARGEST EVER TREE OF LIFE FOR ALL LIVING AMPHIBIANS: LANDMARK PROJECT INVOLVED EXTENSIVE WORK IN MUSEUM'S GENOMICS LABS
  April 2006
• Odd Sauropod
  LONG-NECKED, ODDLY PROPORTIONED SAUROPOD REPORTED: A SINGLE VERTEBRA MEASURES NEARLY TWO FEET LONG
  March 2006
• Oldest Tyrannosaur
  OLDEST-KNOWN TYRANNOSAUR REPORTED: 160-million-year-old predatory dinosaur had large, fragile crest on its head
  February 2006
• Bahamian coral reefs
  BIG FISH, SMALL FISH, REEF THRIVE WITHIN CARIBBEAN MARINE PARK: Marine Reserve in the Bahamas Benefits Fish Predators, Prey, and the Reef
  January 2006
• Bipedal Crocodilian
  TOOTHLESS CROCODILE RELATIVE, 210 MILLION YEARS OLD, WALKED ON TWO FEET: Strongly Resembles Bird-Like Dinosaurs
  January 2006
• Mammoth Genome
  BIOLOGIST AND COLLEAGUES DECODE LONGEST DNA SEQUENCE EVER OF WOOLLY MAMMOTH: Finding demonstrates that sequence of entire Woolly Mammoth genome is within reach
  December 2005
• Island Biodiversity
  FINDING OVERTURNS EARLIER ASSUMPTION THAT ISLANDS ARE EVOLUTIONARY DEAD-ENDS: Suggests Conservationists bring greater focus to island flora and fauna
  November 2005
• Earliest Rabbit Fossil
  EARLIEST RABBIT FOSSIL FOUND: Suggests modern mammal group emerged as Dinosaurs faced extinction
  Feburary 2005
• Dino-Eating Mammal
  EARLY MAMMALS FED ON YOUNG DINOSAURS: Juvenile Psittacosaur found in Belly of Primitive Mammal
  January 2005
• Sleeping Troodontid
  FIRST EVER FOSSIL OF SLEEPING DINOSAUR FOUND IN CHINA: Suggests Some Dinosaurs were Warm-Blooded like Birds
  October 2004
• Feathered Tyrannosaur
  NEWLY DISCOVERED PRIMITIVE TYRANNOSAUR FOUND TO BE FEATHERED: Underscores Evolutionary Links among Living Birds and Non-Avian Dinosaurs
  October 2004

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