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Baby biodiversity

“Python of the Sea” study highlights marine biodiversity underestimates

April 28, 2022

Most ocean life remains to be discovered. Because fish and many other animals that live in the ocean often have larvae or other, microscopic life stages that drift freely in ocean water, counting species by genetic barcoding of plankton samples adds to counts of species recorded as adults and is a highly efficient way to understand what lives in the ocean and how biodiversity changes as we...

Fossil leaves

What the leaves tell us: stories of extinction and the origins of tropical forests

April 26, 2022

Plant leaves show us the species that exist in a forest, and the ecological conditions in which they live. These attributes can also be observed in fossil leaves, which allows us to reconstruct forests that existed millions of years ago and understand how they have changed over time. In this talk we will talk about how fossil leaves tell us about the effect of a mass extinction 66 million...

High seas

The first scientific expedition to Panama’s unexplored Cordillera de Coiba sets sail

April 26, 2022

Scientists, students and communicators from Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain will spend twelve days on the high seas exploring the biodiversity of Panama’s Cordillera de Coiba seamounts.

Q?Rioso

Explore your curiosity with Punta Culebra

April 01, 2022

Join Alvaro, Andreina and Francis from the Punta Culebra Nature Center, to discover the new interactive and experimental learning space called Q?rioso, which will highlight collections and laboratory equipment from the Smithsonian Institution and where participants will be able to unleash their imagination and curiosity.

Hope to see you there!

Caught red handed

The mystery of an unusual Panamanian plant’s dispersal

March 25, 2022

Camera traps in the forest canopy document a nocturnal mammal that may help Zamia pseudoparasitica survive up in the air.

Roost Rulers

Small prey bully large predators… and win

March 23, 2022

Tiny, fruit-eating bats take over the roost of larger, carnivorous bats at the edge of Panama’s Soberanía National Park.

Isolated gem

A bilingual book makes the unique biodiversity of Panama’s Escudo de Veraguas Island available to indigenous communities

March 10, 2022

Botanist Alicia Ibañez hopes the book, which presents new data on the tiny island’s endemic flora and fauna in both Spanish and Ngäbere, will increase awareness of the importance of preserving its biodiversity.

Under the sea

A decade of deep-reef exploration in the Greater Caribbean

March 09, 2022

The use of submersibles exponentially increased recorded diversity of islands’ deep-reef fish faunas .

Fear of cats

Smelly ocelot habitats may scare off seed-dispersing rodents

February 24, 2022

An experiment in Panama’s Parque Natural Metropolitano and Gamboa revealed that agoutis were less likely to disperse and pilfer seeds in sites where ferocious felines roam.

Our History

Much more than a land bridge

February 18, 2022

Panama's deep history has been the subject of much research over many decades. "Panama, much more than a land bridge" is the first book written in Spanish and from Panama dedicated exclusively to addressing the discoveries and analyses surrounding the archeology of this territory.

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