Today, June 14, is the last day to help choose the names for two Potomac River dolphins! [via DCist]
The Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast covers the “Bone Wars” waged between two 19th-century paleontologists. [via Smithsonian]

Explore hundreds of thousands of pages from colonial North American manuscripts, newly digitized by Harvard Library! [via infoDOCKET]
Archaeologists recently discovered “annular bread-like objects”—ancient Cheerios—at a Bronze Age site. [via Newsweek]
The New York Times discusses a plane-based observatory that can identify and map endangered coral reefs from the air. [via NYT Science]
![Underwater View of Coral with Ernesto Weil, Panama, STRI, 1986, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 11-009 [88-7241]. Underwater View of Coral with Ernesto Weil, Panama, STRI](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-88-7241-000002/full/400,/0/default.jpg)
A video profile of the Tenement Museum explores the objects in its permanent collection. [via Museum Assocation of New York]
As part of the “Deep Time Special Report,” geologists explain how to date fossils. [via Smithsonian]
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