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Our laser technique can tell apart elephant and mammoth ivory – here’s how it may disrupt the ivory...
EconoTimes· 5 hours agoIn recent years, the global trade in elephant ivory has faced significant restrictions in an effort...
Enormous snake in ancient India was longer than a school bus
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoPaleontologists in India have unearthed fossilized vertebrae from a snake that slithered around the...
New Species May Be The Largest Snake To Have Ever Lived
IFLScience· 7 days agoA new species of prehistoric snake may be one of the largest snakes to have ever slithered the Earth. With an estimated body length of up to 15 meters (over 49 feet), the extinct< ...
Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants
New Scientist· 1 day agoBotanists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants using genomic data...
Bringing back the woolly mammoth to roam Earth again. Is it even possible? | The Excerpt
USA Today· 7 days agoOn a special episode (first released on April 18, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Could the woolly...
Laser technology offers breakthrough in detecting illegal ivory
Phys.org· 17 hours agoA new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory...
Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever
New Scientist· 7 days agoFossil remains discovered in India have been identified as belonging to an enormous,...
Scientists Clone Extremely Endangered Ferret
Futurism via Yahoo News· 5 days agoScientists have successfully cloned two baby ferrets called Noreen and Antonia from cells that were frozen almost 40 years ago, potentially paving the...
Ferret once thought extinct has been cloned
Newsweek· 6 days agoNoreen and Antonia are clones of a ferret who was captured in the 1980s after the feared-extinct species was rediscovered.
This Harvard spinoff uses plastic-eating microbes to clean up waste
Fast Company Magazine· 3 days agoA plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle...