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If your phone could talk, it would have quite the story. Explore it in the new exhibition, Cellphone: #UnseenConnections , now open @nmnh . 📱🦖📱🐘📱 💎

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#PrattKeeping is a key component of the exhibition process. Our Dinosaur Curator, Matthew Carrano, has a tough job! http://t.co/IUCAP6LTBK

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Anthropologist Grover Krantz loved to teach & loved his pets. He decided that when he died he would donate his body to a scientific research collection—as long as his dog Clyde could stay with him. What better way to honor the love between man & man's best friend? #NationalPetDay

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Proof that birds are dinosaurs? A mourning dove with her chick in a Triceratops-protected nest. Happy #FossilFriday and thanks to @SIGardens ’ Urban Bird Habitat for creating this ecosystem and the photo! #SmithsonianInBloom

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On what would’ve been #Prince ’s 60th birthday, we share this purple wonder. This chalcedony—a type of quartz—from Sulawesi, Indonesia is a variety called “grape agate.” Scientists are still trying to uncover the physics and chemistry behind its bubble-looking shapes.

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Our giant #babyshark (Carcharocles megalodon) and staff are cheering on the @Nationals in their first game of the #WorldSeries tonight! You can doo-doo, doo, doo, doo doo it! #StayInTheFight 🦈

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Our Curator of Dinosauria, Matthew Carrano, wants in on #UnscienceAnAnimal . Here’s his take on T. rex! #DeepTime

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We’re excited to introduce a new, extinct species: Opisthiamimus gregori. It was a lizard-like rhynchocephalian—part of the same ancient lineage as 🇳🇿's living tuatara. But this species once inhabited Jurassic N. America about 150 MYA and lived alongside dinos. 🎨Julius Csotonyi

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“The most important thing when taking photos of a fossil specimen is always including a scale bar! 1 Rhomaleosaurus = 7 vertebrate paleontologists.” - Laura Soul, #DeepTime Education Specialist in our Paleobiology Department #ThisPaleoLife #FossilFriday

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This fascinating specimen is the skull of a “narluga,” or narwhal-beluga hybrid, found in the waters off Greenland. The skull has a number of erupted teeth that are shaped like tiny narwhal tusks, as opposed to the beluga’s flat, peg-like teeth. #NarwhalWeek #ArcticLegend

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Hi @burkemuseum , we’re sending you this #MuseumBouquet (Tsuga heterophylla) on behalf of the U.S. National Herbarium. From one Washington to the other, we 💙 you and your collections, researchers, educators, and just everything.

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Today, we remember entomologist Edward O. Wilson who passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Wilson spent part of his childhood in Washington, DC where he explored the natural world by dividing his time between @NMNH , @NationalZoo , and @NatlParkService 's Rock Creek Park.

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The holidays wouldn't be complete without the Department of Anthropology’s annual archaeology themed cake. Who can name this year's site?

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This is the second-blackest fish the team found. It has a bioluminescent lure that it uses to attract prey, and if not for its ultra-black skin and transparent, anti-reflective teeth, the light from its lure would light up its face and scare prey away.

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@NatlParkService And here's where we invite anyone and everyone to learn about the "bitey ends" of all 278 squirrel species in this book, which was co-authored by Smithsonian zoologist and curator Richard Thorington (1937-2017).

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A new study from @Osbornlab & @sonkelab published in @CurrentBiology found ultra-black coloring in 16 fish species, the first time ultra-black has been discovered in aquatic animals. Take a look at the Pacific dragonfish.

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Today, we mourn the loss of our beloved colleague, Vicki Funk, Botany Curator and Director of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program. She advanced botany for 38 years here @NMNH . Vicki was a prolific researcher—with 280+ scientific papers—and a mentor to many.

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We’ve got fossils with cat-itude! This skeleton of a Smilodon californicus, commonly known as a saber-toothed tiger, was unearthed in California’s @labreatarpits . #Catsgiving

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Meet the newest described member of the mammal family: the Benin tree hyrax, Dendrohyrax interfluvialis. It lives in forests between the Niger and Volta Rivers in West Africa. While they look superficially like marmots, hyraxes’ closest living relatives include elephants.

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Today we are excited to announce that the entire collection—more than 3.8 million herbarium sheets—is now online and ready for you to use.

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Pelican spiders have a bizarre appearance, with a long "neck" and chelicerae ("jaws") that are used to prey on other spiders from a distance. Today in @ZooKeys_Journal , @NMNH_Entomology curator Hannah Wood and colleagues describe 18 new species of pelican spiders in Madagascar.

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Our elephant and the Hope Diamond—not to mention our staff—are looking forward to seeing you! Our doors will open on Tuesday, January 29 at 10am.

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Paid #SciCom internship opportunity @nmnh ! If you love interviewing scientists and writing about 💎🌋☄️🌸🌷🍃🌳🐟🐠🍤🐋🦖🦕🦇🦋🐝🦗🐞🕸🐻🦆🦅🦜🐨 apply by Friday, November 18. Details ⬇️.

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The museum's Allosaurus fragilis specimen was recently upgraded to be the type specimen! The specimen’s new status is a change more than a decade in the making and represents a coveted scientific honor.

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Oh, hello there. Meet Xenacanthus, a Permian freshwater shark from Texas whose name means “strange spine.” It patrolled rivers and muddy streams, looking for prey to catch with its two-pronged teeth, between 290 and 205 million years ago. #DeepTime

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Today we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague Terry Erwin, Research Entomologist and Curator of Coleoptera. Terry started his career @NMNH nearly 50 years ago, in July 1970.

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If you care about the future of our planet's flora, then it's critical to know about its past. Each specimen within the U.S. National Herbarium, which is housed at the Smithsonian, documents a species from a specific time and place.

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Modern Ginkgos are virtually unchanged from their ancient ancestors. The number of pores on the surface of their leaves, known as stomata, correlates with the amount of CO2 in the air. Counting pores in fossil leaves provides an estimate of ancient atmospheric CO2.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe we shouldn't all be opening our drawers at the same time. Then again, maybe we should... #battleofthedrawers

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Congrats to @NMNH ’s Kay Behrensmeyer for winning the 2 biggest awards in paleontology: The Romer-Simpson Medal & The Paleontological Society Medal. She’s a true time traveler, with a research program that spans 252 million years and has resulted in 150+ peer-reviewed papers.

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This #NationalMothWeek , we're busting stereotypes by showing you that butterflies aren't the only winged wonders in this world. Found in India and Southeast Asia, the Baorisa moth (Baorisa hieroglyphica) is arguably the most beautiful of the Noctuid moths.

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Did our T. rex bring down this Triceratops, or is it scavenging a carcass? Either scenario is possible. As the largest carnivore in western North America 67–66 million years ago, T. rex probably hunted and scavenged meals whenever it wanted. #DeepTime

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Paid #SciCom internship opportunity @nmnh ! If you love interviewing scientists and writing about 💎🪨🌋☄️🌸🌷🍃🌳🐟🐠🍤🐋🦖🦕🦇🦋🐝🦗🐞🕸🐻🦆🦅🦜🐨 apply by Friday, August 5.

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We grieve today with our colleagues in Brazil. Our hearts and thoughts are with you @MuseuNacional .

‘A lobotomy of the Brazilian memory’: Devastating fire destroys Rio’s National Museum

The museum housed about 20 million items. many of which are feared destroyed.

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Congratulations to our very own Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer on her election to @theNASciences . Behrensmeyer is a paleobiologist and pioneered the study of how animals become fossils, a field known as taphonomy.

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Snails have teeth, a bunch of them! These SEM images reveal those of a freshwater snail. Mollusk teeth exist as a tongue-like structure called a radula. Radular teeth scrape and ingest food and get replaced, similar to shark teeth.

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Thanks to @3D_Digi_SI , you too can have a 3D copy of the Nation's T. rex killing or scavenging—you decide!—a Triceratops! #DeepTime #sidigi

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Should you find yourself needing a pop of color, we offer up Bone Hall.

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Meet Selina Cole, the Smithsonian's newest paleontologist! The bulk of Selina's research is focused on understanding why some things go extinct and others don't. #paleontology

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Archaeologist by day, master cake crafter by night: Eric Hollinger created yet another incredible cake for our Anthropology department’s annual holiday party. The 29” chocolate Viking ship is modeled after one that was discovered in Oseberg, Norway.

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Special thanks to @FedEx for transporting the Nation’s T. rex and many other fossil specimens back to the museum! #FedExCares

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"My people chose to live here in what is now called Arizona; we were not relocated here. We have adapted our seeds over 2000 years. Our agriculture is designed to preserve soil moisture and work within a dry environment.”

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Broadbills are colorful and enigmatic birds from the Old World tropics. Borneo is the heart of diversity for this small family of birds, including this stunning Red-and-black Broadbill.

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The Hope Diamond 💎 isn't the only shiny blue gem in the museum! These brilliant beauties are members of the tribe Euglossini, commonly known as orchid bees. These bees are native to Central and South America, most are solitary and pollinate orchids.

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It was a rainy day, 201 to 145 million years ago. 🎨: Julius Csotonyi for the Smithsonian

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Elephants are the only proboscids on Earth today, relics of a group that had dozens of species. #WorldElephantDay

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In 1862, Darwin examined an orchid from Madagascar and predicted that it would require a specialized moth pollinator with an extremely long proboscis. The African hawkmoth was discovered decades later and was first photographed visiting the orchid in the 1990's. #DarwinDay

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Today marks a milestone in the history of natural history museums. Museum directors, including our own Kirk Johnson, co-authored an article in the journal Science outlining a new, global approach to museum research collections.

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If this is what a good day at the office looks like to you, apply for the social media producer position @nmnh . We’re looking for someone who's creative, strategic, and passionate about making science shareable. Apply by Feb. 19, via USA Jobs. #scicomm

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What do the @Smithsonian and @Slash have in common? A love of dinosaurs. #DeepTime .

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6 years

The HIV pandemic sparked a social movement encouraging governments to rethink approaches to outbreaks. Cleve Jones used this bullhorn in candlelight vigils and marches in San Francisco in the 1980s. It was a gift from Jones’ mentor, gay rights activist Harvey Milk. #Outbreak

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One fish, two fish… big fish, bigger fish! How did the little fish get inside the big one? This Xiphactinus hadn’t finished digesting its meal of a Thryptodus before it died. The enormous predator prowled North America’s inland seas 90 million years ago. #DeepTime

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T-Rex trying to make snow angels... #snowday #DC Created by @TRexTrying http://t.co/lNJcjwUY1d

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. @iamkidpresident meets museum mascot, Henry! http://t.co/wqvH78oZ7R

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4 years

"Euglossine bees are incredibly fascinating. Known as orchid bees, they are the exclusive pollinators of ~700 orchid species.🤯 Many Euglossine bees boast metallic jewel tones in brilliant sapphire blues and deep emerald greens." - Tovah Siegel, @NMNH_Entomology #NatureNerding101

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Thanks to @3D_Digi_SI , you too can have a 3D copy of the Nation's T. rex killing or scavenging—you decide!—a Triceratops! #DeepTime #FossilFriday

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This fossil gives a whole new meaning to “sleeping with the fishes.” Protorohippus was an early species of horse that lived in Wyoming 52 million years ago. This particular individual floated out into a lake after dying, where it sank and was preserved in sediments. #DeepTime

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The dinosaurs are back & ready to unpack! The Nation’s T. rex, its cast (shown here), and many other fossils have returned. They'll be reassembled so that you can experience them next summer! @Leafdoctor & our Curator of Dinosauria Matt Carrano unveiled this #DeepTime icon today.

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What's better than our newly renovated cafeterias being open? The fact that you can have your morning joe (or afternoon gelato!) with our a 52-foot-long, life-size model of Carcharocles megalodon.

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Ultra-black fishes absorb light by using only the size and shape of pigment-filled cellular parts, a much simpler method than any previously known. This could mean a new way to make ultra-black coatings used in things like cameras.

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The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) is so bizarre looking that it might just be cute! The smallest armadillo species in the world, and a native of Argentina, has a hard outer covering rich in blood vessels that allow it to blush pink.

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The crystals that fill this specimen make it appear geode-like, but microscopic analysis of the outer layer reveals structures typical of crocodilian eggshells. The egg was laid ~45 million years ago and is one of several collected in Wyoming.

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Unlike birds, bat wings don't have to be symmetrical and can create shapes that allow for greater maneuverability. #BatWeek @BioDivLibrary

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We join @FieldMuseum , @DenverMuseumNS , @AMNH , @Le_Museum , @MfNBerlin , @museumnaturalis , @NHM_Denmark , @NHM_London , @NHMLA , @RBINSmuseum , @ROMtoronto in expressing our commitment to our colleagues @MuseuNacional as they move forward in the coming months and years. 🇧🇷 🌎 🇧🇷

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Our elephant is ready for #EarthHour . He'll be in the dark 8:30-9:30pm tonight to raise awareness of our energy use.

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The beauty of nature - it’s electrifying. @naturesbestpics winner | landscapes: Colima Volcano Eruption by Sergio Tapiro Velasco.

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Giant shark do do dodo dodo.... This shark was MASSIVE. A top predator 23 to 3.6 million years ago, Carcharocles megalodon could reach up to 60 feet in length and weigh up to 120,000 pounds. Their powerful jaws generated 40,000 pounds of bite force. #SharkWeek

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It's not every day you can announce a new species of mammal. It's an even rarer one when you can share the news about five! A new study led by Smithsonian researchers and colleagues has IDed five new species of soft-furred hedgehogs from Southeast Asia.

An integrative taxonomic revision of lesser gymnures (Eulipotyphla: Hylomys) reveals five new...

Abstract. We here present a comprehensive integrative taxonomic review of the genus Hylomys, using molecular (mitochondrial genomes and up to five nuclear

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"Here, you can see the Pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) munching away on a scorpion! They are not affected by scorpion stings like we are, instead these creepy crawlies are a tasty snack!" - Kelly Speer, Biodiversity Genomics Fellow @NMNH and @nationalzoo 📸 credit: Winifred Frick

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Hey #predocs , #postdocs , and undergrad seniors in anthropology, biology, and Earth sciences: we're accepting applications for fellowships. If you’re studying any of these emojis IRL, check out our opportunities 👇! 🦖🌋🐋🌵🌿🌻💎🐛🕷️🦋🐙🪲🦗🦉🦎🐢🐺🍇👣🦞🐟🦈🌏🎶🎨🧺🌊🧬🌠⚒️

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No humblebragging here. We are super proud to congratulate paleontologist Anna K. Behrensmeyer for winning the 2018 @Paleo_Society Medal—awarded "to a person whose eminence is based on advancement of knowledge in paleontology." More about her work here:

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Close-up of a rock that was ejected from Mars by an impact & fell to Earth. It samples a 1.3-billion-year-old-Martian lava flow! #GGMturns20

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110 yeas ago, paleontologist & Smithsonian Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered the fossil-rich Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. It contains diverse marine fossils that swam more than 500 million years ago, including this Marrella splendens, a primitive arthropod.

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Happy #InternationalSlothDay ! The giant ground sloth (Eremotherium) was an herbivore. While it didn’t live in trees, it used its clawed hands to pull down tree branches and eat mouthfuls of tasty leaves like its sloth relatives today.

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Happy #GroundhogDay ! The hashtag that is really on our minds though is #RodentsWithHorns . Meet Ceratogaulus hatcheri.

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Anyone else feeling sloth-like this weekend? The giant ground sloth (Eremotherium) was an herbivore. While it didn’t live in trees, it used its clawed hands to pull down tree branches and eat mouthfuls of tasty leaves like its sloth relatives today.

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Hi! My name is Richie Hodel and I’m a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow in the Botany Department at @NMNH . My research focuses on Prunus, which is a genus of 300-400 flowering plants that includes cherries. #PostdocTakeover

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Fossil crinoids like these have been found in rocks over 470 million years old. Crinoids are filter feeders that gather particles floating in the ocean. They still inhabit today’s oceans and can be found in water as deep as 13,000 feet. #SeaMonstersUnearthed #FossilFriday

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#OTD in 1887, we acquired two Easter Island statues, or moai.

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Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science! Together, these women of @NMNH are inspiring and training the next generation of scientists and science enthusiasts. Keep on being awesome, ladies! #February11

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The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is one of the most critically endangered birds on the planet. Population estimates are currently less than 500 birds.

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Before he hunted fossils, the @Smithsonian ’s Curator of Dinosauria, Matthew Carrano, was a 7-yr-old obsessed with dinos. Here’s one of his childhood drawings to prove it! Doodle your own dinosaur, tag us and add #DeepTime so we can ❤ and share your masterpieces! #FossilFriday

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Explore more than >350 historic #egg images @BioDivLibrary : http://t.co/vsHmDm3b5n #eggcellent http://t.co/L6tUYqwB2D

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Bennu is here! 🎉 Starting today, you can visit the museum and see a sample of the asteroid Bennu collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission more than 200 million miles away from Earth.

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Happy Birthday to...us! #OTD in 1910, we opened our doors to the public for the first time. Thank you for filling our halls with millions of memories for the past 109 years.

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Don’t have a cow, we didn’t forget about #CowAppreciationDay ! This piece if Zuni polychrome earthenware pottery is estimated to have been made around 1875.

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Due to boron impurities, if you expose Hope Diamond to shortwave ultraviolet light and then remove the light, it will emit an orange-red light that is visible for nearly a minute! #WinterSolstice

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We invite you to search the collections, by species, date, or location. Let us know what you find! Our museum’s Department of Botany and the @SmithsonianDPO made this incredible work possible.

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Happy #WorldWhaleDay from our whale of a team to yours!

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Dinosaurs. Cats. Humans. Arguably the three greatest enigmas EVER. Fortunately, our curator of vertebrate paleontology, Dr. Hans Sues, is willing and able to explore them in our new #DeepTime series, “The Dr. Is In.”

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In advance of #WorldWhaleDay , here's our amazing ‘Whale Warehouse.' @nmnh contains the largest collection of cetaceans (whales and dolphins) in the world, with more than 10K specimens! Scientists from all over the world use them to study the biology of whales. #WhaleWeekSI

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Oh oh oh ohohoh. You can't touch this. (Really, you can’t. Don’t even try.) #SmithsonianCypher

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All birds, from Jurassic Archaeopteryx to the sparrow outside your window, are dinosaurs. Even their hollow bones, feathers, and stiff wrists come from their non-avian dinosaur ancestors. This cast of specimen MB.Av.101 @mfnberlin , will be on view in #DeepTime , beginning June 8.

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This ocean-going crocodile relative prowled Europe’s inland seas 183–180 million years ago, propelling itself through the water with undulations of its powerful tail and body. A long snout filled with thin, sharp teeth hint that Steneosaurus probably hunted fish. #DeepTime

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When calcium leached out of this scallop ~40 MYA, it formed a halo that solidified the sediment around it. Unearthed in WA, the specimen is now in our collections. Happy #FossilFriday from our Paleo Dept and @SIxDIGI , who are on their way to digitizing #1MillionFossils ! #epicctcn

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8 months

With more than 100,000 species, the phylum Mollusca is extremely diverse and ranges from snails the size of a grain of sand to the giant squid. While not all mollusks have them, these eye-catching shells are a recognizable characteristic shared by much of the phylum. 🐚

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Smithsonian NMNH

@NMNH

6 years

“In Flanders field the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below.” #StoriesofService

100 Years Ago, Poppies Became More Than Just Flowers

Here's how the poppy came to symbolize World War I.

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Smithsonian NMNH

@NMNH

5 years

Home, home on the range, where the deer and Stockoceros played… This relative of modern pronghorns lived about 1.8 million–12,000 years ago in western North America. It was more closely related to giraffes than to antelopes. #DeepTime

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Smithsonian NMNH

@NMNH

6 years

From Washington D.C., our Allosaurus fragilis sends a warm welcome to Maximo @thefield_in ! #HelloMaximo

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Smithsonian NMNH

@NMNH

7 years

“Def rhymes on the microphone is what I’m givin’ Yes I am a Rock and you, @NMAAHC , are just a pebble,” - MC Lyte #SmithsonianCypher

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Smithsonian NMNH

@NMNH

5 years

Something big has found a home @NMNH ! Starting TOMORROW (5/24), a giant—and very toothy—C. megalodon shark will welcome visitors to our fully renovated cafes. The shark once prowled the ancient sea that covered the Chesapeake Bay area and now you can experience it in person!

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