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Hope Lives On For The Near-Extinct ‘Jambato Frog’—But Not For Its 2 Close Cousins
Forbes· 21 hours agoThe Jambato harlequin frog, endemic to the northern Andes of Ecuador, is a case in point. The Spanish naturalist M. Jiménez de la Espada observed thousands of these frogs ...
Could a Worm Really ‘Eat’ Part of RFK Jr.’s Brain? We Talked to a Neurologist
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHow does one get infected? Kennedy speculated that he might have picked up the brain worm during his...
Giant sloths, camels taller than humans and cheetahs roamed prehistoric USA
The US Sun· 4 days agoLONG before the United States came to exist, North America was populated with giant and exotic...
'A lot of culture and a lot of bloodshed': Inside the fight to preserve Oregon's Owyhee Canyonlands
Fast Company Magazine· 18 hours agoDrive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, exurbs, and farms into Oregon, and you’ll find...
Meet 6 Exquisite Animals Wrongly Declared Extinct—5 Of Them Live On
Forbes· 6 days agoThe Caspian tiger was once a thriving species, inhabiting the forested steppes of western and central Asia. Legends of the Caspian tiger’s predatorial dominance are woven ...
Honolulu Zoo is now home to a new male Sumatran tiger | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 2 days ago“We are very fortunate that the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan was able to...
Plasmodium vivax Infections among Immigrants from China Traveling to the United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· 1 day agoPlasmodium vivax, the most widely geographically distributed species of the Plasmodium genus, causes malaria in humans and is transmitted through the bite of infectious Anopheles ...
Bring in the butterflies: Go wild with native azaleas
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe blooms are pink and form loose clusters and shrubs that grow from three to six feet in height...
Bird flu's big question: What's driving its spread
Axios· 6 days agoWhy it matters: Detecting viral spread early and limiting how long the flu circulates in a population of animals cuts the odds it will mutate and adapt...
Peaceful Bonobos and Aggressive Chimps? New Research Says It’s More Complicated Than That - EcoWatch
EcoWatch· 3 days agoLong known to be the peaceful close relative of humans, scientists have discovered that the...