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How can humans and jaguars coexist?

May 19, 2022

From tracking the movements of large felines across the continent to helping rural communities reap the benefits of protecting biodiversity, director of Yaguará Panamá Foundation Ricardo Moreno turned his childhood dream into a mission.

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Unique agates on a Panamanian island reveal submarine volcanic activity

May 05, 2022

Giant agates found in an island on the Pacific coast of Panama prompted a study on the area’s geology to answer the question of how the Isthmus evolved and became a bridge between two continents.

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Secretary Lonnie Bunch visits “The farthest rock from the sun of the Smithsonian”

April 29, 2022

The Secretary visited facilites in Panama and Colon and got to see first-hand the important science being done at STRI.

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New interactive map of indigenous fishing practices around the pacific rim

April 29, 2022

Dedicated to “the Ancestors who stewarded the ocean” an interactive story map created by the Pacific Sea Garden Collective reawakens traditional ways of harvesting food from the sea from Panama to Australia to the Pacific Northwest.

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“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...

Webinar STRI Abril 2022

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...

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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