The Earth is in the middle of a mass extinction, according to some scientists, and one of its leading causes is environmental damage by invasive species.
Dr Joe Roman is a conservation biologist who is concerned about the impact of invasive species, not just in his backyard but across the country and around the world.
And he’s come up with a simple solution that will likely turn a few stomachs: Eat them.
Many high-end restaurants have picked up on the
Have you ever felt you were being watched? Almost everybody has. It’s a scientific phenomenon that is universal.
More than 80 per cent of women, and nearly three-quarters of men, questioned in Britain, the U. S. and Scandinavia, say they have experienced it — turning around to find someone staring at them, or looking at someone from behind who turned and looked back.
Numerous studies have proved that the sensation can be reproduced under rigorous laboratory conditions. Those who watch
The first time Jessica Pate swam beside a manta ray off Florida’s southern coast, the 8-foot-wide fish flipped belly-up and slowed to watch her. “I was kind of obsessed after that,” Pate says. The marine biologist was so hooked that she founded the conservation nonprofit Florida Manta Project and has dedicated the last seven years to studying mantas and their kin.
Her work is paying off. She and her colleagues have since discovered the first known manta nursery in Florida’s
