Gene Hunt, Smithsonian (IMAGE)

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Gene Hunt, Smithsonian

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Dr. Gene Hunt, curator of Ostracoda for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, with a deep-sea ostracode specimen under the microscope. Hunt and a team of researchers drew on the museum's ostracode collection to understand the role of sexual selection in extinction. Their findings were published in Nature on April 11.

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Adrian James Testa, Smithsonian

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