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American Museum of Natural History Internship Program Celebrates 20th Anniversary This summer, while many of their peers are starting traditional, office-based internships, more than 30 local young adults will be... August 1, 2016 Scorpions Have Similar Tastes in Burrow Architecture New research on the burrows of scorpions in diverse environments finds that these predatory arachnids build strikingly similar architectural... June 21, 2016 Bioluminescence Evolved at Least 29 Times in Marine Fishes Alone New research shows that bioluminescence—a phenomenon in which organisms generate visible light through a chemical reaction—has evolved... June 8, 2016 Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World at the American Museum of Natural History For 200 million years, crocs and their charismatic ancestors have been a tenacious presence on our planet, sometimes in forms that... June 3, 2016 Patterns of Glowing Sharks get Clearer with Depth Study shows that fluorescence makes catsharks more visible to neighbors of the same species and may aid in communication. April 25, 2016 Leg-wing Coordination in Baby Birds, Dinosaurs is Key Transition in Origin of Flight, Study Suggests New research based on high-resolution x-ray movies reveals that despite having extremely underdeveloped muscles and wings, young... April 21, 2016 Discovery of 13-million-year-old Long-Snouted Croc Fossil Suggests Parallel Evolution of "Telescoping" Eyes Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian species evolved... April 20, 2016 Bigger Brains Led to Bigger Bodies in Our Ancestors New research suggests that humans became the large-brained, large-bodied animals we are today because of natural selection to increase... April 18, 2016 Discovery of Extinct Bat Doubles Diversity of Native Hawaiian Land Mammals The Hawaiian Islands have long been thought to support just one endemic land mammal in the archipelago’s brief geologic history,... March 22, 2016 Dinosaurs Among Us Opens at the American Museum of Natural History Dinosaurs never really vanished - most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives on all around us, in birds. March 15, 2016 Extinct Otter-like 'Marine Bear' Might Have Had a Bite Like a Saber-Toothed Cat New research suggests that the feeding strategy of Kolponomos, an enigmatic shell-crushing marine predator that lived about 20 million... March 1, 2016 The Prolonged Death of Light from Type Ia Supernovae Three years after its explosion, a type Ia supernova continues to shine brighter than expected, new research finds. The observations... February 24, 2016