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Photo Contest - Downloads

Want to enjoy the finalists, winners and weekly Editors' Picks more than just viewing the photos? We have created wallpapers, screensavers and puzzles for you.

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Wild Things:Life as We Know It

Bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Butterflies, clicking antelopes, creatures of the deep and more

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Beyond the Photos with Neal Slavin

Photographer Neal Slavin discusses his group portraits and his career as a whole

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Behind Inaugural Speeches, Meaningful Words

What words did Lincoln and Washington focus on most in their inaugural addresses? Explore presidential speeches in a whole new way

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A Naturalist's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos

Smithsonian's Laura Helmuth vacationed in the Galapagos Islands and returned with even more respect for Charles Darwin

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Honeyeater birds, sea slugs, tree frogs, and more

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Mosquitoes, New Zealand flightless birds, pink lizards and more

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Wolves, hibernating animals, spitting cobras and more

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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Finest Photos

Now that the telescope has received its final upgrades, we look back on Hubble's most memorable images from space

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Dinosaur gangs, psychedelic fish and long-distance elephant calls

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Flight of the hummingbird, termite cloning and the rise of the octopus

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum

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Burgess Shale's Weird Wonders

The fossils found in the Burgess Shale include the 500-million-year-old ancestors of most modern animals

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Bodybuilders Through the Ages

Over the past 150 years, bodybuilders have gone from circus sideshows to celebrities, imparting fitness lessons along the way

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Galileo's Instruments of Discovery

With these various instruments, Galileo Galilei was able to look into space and change our view of the universe.

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Dog faces, the history of laughter, snakes, and bird warning calls

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Decorating the White House with Smithsonian Art

Continuing a Washington tradition, the Obamas selected artwork from the Smithsonian collections to hang in their historic home

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Sheep, Chicks and Geese Scurry at the County Fair

As photographer Dan Nelken has catalogued, the county fair is the place for family farms to showcase their prized livestock

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