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The Power of Poison App Up for 2014 Webby Award
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The 2014 Webby Award nominees are in, and the Museum’s The Power of Poison: Be a Detective iPad app has gotten a nod from the Academy (the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, that is). Now we need your vote.
Pterosaurs Diorama Depicts Ancient Brazilian Coast
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If you want to spoil budding paleontologists, says Alexander Kellner, co-curator of the new Pterosaurs exhibition, send them on their first dig to the Romualdo Formation in the Araripe Basin, in northeastern Brazil.
Fieldwork Journal: Getting the Word Out about Lorises
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Mary Blair, assistant director for research and strategic planning at the Museum’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, is surveying for lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus) in Bu Gia Map National Park in Vietnam.
4/11 and 4/12: Pterosaurs and the Milstein Science Series for Families
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Kick off your weekend or jump-start your spring break at the Museum.
Fossil: Daddy Longlegs Once Had Second Set of Eyes
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Living harvestmen—a group of arachnids commonly known as daddy longlegs—have a single pair of eyes. But a newly described 305-million-year-old fossil found in eastern France shows that wasn’t always the case.