The Spider, the Porcupine, the Lizard and the Bat
Spiders, porcupines, lizards and bats. What could they possibly all have in common? Well according to a recent suite of published research, each of these animal groups has a new addition to their...
View ArticleTop 5 Most Invaluable Animals
Robert Paine was studying a rocky intertidal community in Makkaw Bay in the 1960s, when he noticed that the abundance of the top predator (the starfish Pisaster ochraceus) seemed to be affecting the...
View ArticleSpecies Profile: Vietnamese Flying Frog
In celebration of Save The Frogs Day. A new species of Flying Frog has been found living in the lowland forests of Vietnam. Named ‘Helen’s Flying Frog’ (Rhacophorus helenae) after the Mother of the...
View ArticleTop 5: Critically Endangered
The number of critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List currently stands at 4091. The real number is likely to be much higher: some species are so rare they haven’t even been discovered yet,...
View ArticleWhy do some turtles never make it to the sea?
The odds of a sea turtle surviving to adulthood is around 1 in 1000. To account for this shortfall, females lay around 100 eggs in a deep pit on sandy beaches in the hope that at least one will hatch...
View ArticleVictory Tastes Sweet for Bees
The EU has announced that it is to ban neonicotinoid pesticides in a bid to save the continent’s bee populations. The controversial move will see three types of the pesticide phased out from December,...
View ArticleDe-Extinction: The future of conservation
Tasmanian Tiger – Candidate species for de-extinction. A TEDx conference in Washington last month brought together a diverse selection of scientists who argued that ‘de-extinction’ (bringing a species...
View ArticleTop 5: De-extinction Candidates
Following on from my earlier feature: De-extinction – The future of conservation, here’s a quick guide to 5 of the species scientists are talking about bringing back from the dead. As you will see, the...
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