Hitch-hiking barnacles
Deep time tracking devices
April 02, 2019
Long-distance migrations are common for large whales, but when in their evolutionary past did they begin to migrate and why? Fossil whale barnacles may have the answers
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Habitat symbiosis
Punta Galeta, where sea and earth coexist
April 15, 2019
The Smithsonian’s first marine lab on Panama’s Caribbean coast invites visitors and researchers to experience the diversity of marine ecosystems within a protected space.
Platypus crab
Fossil crab reveals a new branch in the tree of life
April 25, 2019
By taking on characteristics from another, younger stage in its life-cycle, this fossil crab was probably able to adapt to new conditions.
Parents Unknown
Mysterious Larvae Discovered in Panama’s Two Oceans
May 14, 2019
These ghostly larvae float freely in seawater, while their parents live on the sea floor and usually go undetected. Genetic studies of larvae provide clues that there are more species to be discovered
Ancient corals
A time machine that explores the ocean’s past
May 15, 2019
By diving into the past lives of coral reefs, a historical ecologist may protect our present-day reefs from human impacts
A fishy past
The marine fossil explorer
June 13, 2019
The Panamanian scientist Carlos De Gracia discovered the largest known marlin fossil, helped improve the classification of these ancient species and now seeks to understand how the fish of millions of years ago reacted to changes in the ocean similar to those we are experiencing today
Sky islands
Flickering sky islands generate Andean biodiversity
June 19, 2019
Giving rise to the richest alpine flora in the world, interconnections between islands of Andean paramo vegetation flicker off and on as global temperatures rise and fall during the last million years
Leaf detective
Searching for clues among fossilized leaves
June 20, 2019
Analyzing the fossil vegetation from millions of years ago, Mónica Carvalho seeks to understand the environmental conditions that led to the evolution of Neotropical forests as we know them today.
Trapped in time
Unearthing the prehistoric plant species of Panama
July 04, 2019
Little is known about the early flora of the isthmus. The first Panamanian paleobotanist aims to change this
Micro mighty
An invisible story is revealed through the senses
September 03, 2019
Through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow Jennifer Gil-Acevedo makes the world of microalgae accessible to all
