Beyond @NMNH

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Read our latest post on three ways to identify a fossil: http://ow.ly/oJU3q

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#earthin6words

We have had some funny, sweet, inspiring, cheeky, and smart responses. Read them below, tell us your favorites, and share your own #earthin6words via @NMAfA

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Check out how we use 3-D imaging to save prehistorical whale bones (and more!) with 5 Ways Smithsonian Uses 3-D Scanning to Open Up History via nationalgeographicdaily

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NMNH is the one of the World's Most Visited Museums

Not only does the nmnh Sant Ocean Hall turn five this month, it is also featured on CNN's "World's Most Visited Museums" slide show. Check it out and see which other museums made the list here.

Photo credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution 

Learn more at the oceanportal​.

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Heard of  6 word stories? We're doing a project to see if earth can be described in just 6 words. Can you describe the earth that surrounds you in just #6words? Reply to this post with your #earthin6words as part of the National Museum of African Art's #earthmatters exhibition, or post a photo with your #6words caption, using the #earthin6words tag!

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Smithsonian Museums on a weekDAY or weekEND?

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Trying to determine when the best time is to visit the Museum? Check out an observation from hollys-gap-year, below:

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The Brain Scoop: Episode 38 Olinguito 

In an attempt to report on up-to-date research in a timely fashion, we shifted our scheduling around to accommodate the recently published description of the world’s latest carnivore: the Olinguito! I wrote a brief post about my introduction to this fascinating creature recently, but the tale behind its discovery deserves a retelling from Bill Stanley, mammalogist and Collections Manager. Plus, we wanted to get his bearded face on camera before he shaves it all off. 

Way to go, Museums! FOR THE WIN. I can’t wait to discover my own species, tucked away in the back of a cabinet or mingled in with others in a drawer. It’ll happen.

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NYT Review: Genome: Unlocking Life's Code

From the The New York Times

...Credit “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,” an exhibition at the Smithsonian with being a bit of a pioneer in its own realm. It is smart, playful, and, while leaning toward the pop-science end of things, enlightening.  

Have you visited the #GenomeZone? 

Read the article here and tell us what you think.

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Love citizen science? Love mammals? Want to be a research subject for citizen science? If you are over 18 years old, take and reblog a 20 minute survey to help our eMammal program that monitors woodland mammal populations in the U.S. with remote sensing cameras. We've collected 1.6 million images in the last 12 months that tell us how mammal populations are doing! Take the survey now!

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It's Friday! Science Friday.

National Museum of Natural History Director Kirk Johnson will be joining a great panel for NPR's Science Friday at 3:00 p.m. ET to discuss "Rebooting Science Museums for the 21st Century."

Photo credit: Forrest Gibson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

From sciencefriday.com: 

Science and natural history museums aren't just dioramas and dusty skeletons anymore. Around the world, museum directors are reinventing their spaces for the 21st century, taking cues from art galleries and science cafes, hackerspaces and working labs—even the great outdoors. 

Read more and listen: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/08/23/2013/rebooting-science-museums-for-the-21st-century.html

Want to know more about Kirk Johnson? Read about his fear of tiny confined spaces, his love of walrus, and his dream job. 

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This is big. Mammoth-big. Dinosaur-big. Cambrian Explosion-big!

Check out our latest blog post on paleo: bit.ly/12mWPVj. 

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Smithsonian scientists have just discovered the olinguito, a new mammal that had been the victim of mistaken identity for more than 100 years. Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos around the world, olinguitos had been previously mistaken for olingos. But now, the truth is out. Get to know the olinguito and read its story at http://ow.ly/nVO2s.

Photo credit: Mark Gurney

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One of our favorite memes from @NMNH Director @leafdoctor. 

Smithsonian scientists have just discovered the olinguito, a new mammal that had been the victim of mistaken identity for more than 100 years. Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos around the world, olinguitos had been previously mistaken for olingos. But now, the truth is out. Get to know the olinguito and read its story at http://ow.ly/nVO2s.

Photo credit: Mark Gurney

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Smithsonian scientists have just discovered the olinguito, a new mammal that had been the victim of mistaken identity for more than 100 years. Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos around the world, olinguitos had been previously mistaken for olingos. But now, the truth is out. Get to know the olinguito and read its story at http://ow.ly/nVO2s.

Photo credit: Mark Gurney

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Smithsonian scientists have just discovered the olinguito, a new mammal that had been the victim of mistaken identity for more than 100 years. Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos around the world, olinguitos had been previously mistaken for olingos. But now, the truth is out. Get to know the olinguito and read its story at http://ow.ly/nVO2s.

Photo credit: Mark Gurney

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Smithsonian scientists have just discovered the olinguito, a new mammal that had been the victim of mistaken identity for more than 100 years. Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos around the world, olinguitos had been previously mistaken for olingos. But now, the truth is out. Get to know the olinguito and read its story at http://ow.ly/nVO2s.

Photo credit: Mark Gurney