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Welcome to the Smithsonian of yesterday. This site will take you on a visual tour of the Smithsonian Institution from its founding to today, from the museums on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to museums in New York City, astrophysical observatories in Mass

The purpose of this manual is to provide basic husbandry guidelines to loris managers, caretakers, and veterinarians. The information in this manual has been compiled from numerous articles, reports, and personal experiences by the authors and editors. Be

A slender, lightly-built lizard with spindly limbs, a compressed body and tail and a distinctive vertebral ridge from the nape to the tail. The body scales are small and homogeneous. The dorsal surface is a rich brown colour, flecked with small, paler bro

Fantasy books are filled with stories about two-headed dragons and two-headed monsters, but who has ever heard of a two-headed tortoise? This is exactly what Noël Daniels, a welder of Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa, discovered when he went