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Plant ‘time bombs’ highlight how sneaky invasive species can be
A stealthy, destructive weed — the sycamore maple — began its “don’t worry, just love me” phase of invading Great Britain so long ago that the tree didn’t have what we’d call a scientific name.
The tree had arrived from Central Europe by 1613, and Carl Linnaeus, who set up modern Latin naming, wouldn’t be born for almost another century. Altogether, 320 years passed before biologists found the tree crowding out native plants, researchers report in the March Nature Ecology
This newfound longhorn beetle species is unusually fluffy
Meet Excastra albopilosa, a newly identified species of longhorn beetle that rocks an unusually fluffy white coat.
Discovered in Australia, the fuzzy-looking arthropod also has distinct, separated eye lobes, short antennal segments and unique variations in the shapes of its legs. All these factors suggest the beetle may warrant being classified as its own genetic family, or genus, researchers report March 19 in the Australian Journal of Taxonomy.
Roughly 18,000 species of all kinds are discovered each year — at
Die Biden-Regierung hat gerade Teile des Endangered Species Act gerettet – Mother Jones
Ein Mantelbrüllaffe, der von den US Fish & Wildlife Services als gefährdete Art eingestuft wirdJon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Zuma
Diese Geschichte wurde ursprünglich von veröffentlicht Inside Climate News und wird hier als Teil der wiedergegeben Klimaschreibtisch Zusammenarbeit.
Während des ehemaligen Präsidenten Während der Amtszeit von Donald Trump hat seine Regierung eine Reihe von Schutzmaßnahmen für Wildtiere und Pflanzen im Rahmen des Endangered Species Act (ESA), einem bahnbrechenden Artenschutzgesetz aus dem Jahr 1973, zurückgenommen.
Am Donnerstag hat die Biden-Regierung mehrere dieser
How Long Should a Species Stay on Life Support?
At about 3:30 a.m., four hours into our drive, Travis Livieri’s phone began to thrum. “I’ve got a ferret for you,” a voice crackled through the static. The animal in question was one of North America’s most endangered mammals, for which the next hour might be the strangest of her life; for Livieri, the wildlife biologist tasked with saving her, it would be one of thousands of interventions he’s made to prevent her kind from permanently vanishing. Over the
Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a new UN report details
Migratory species don’t travel with a passport, but they cross borders all the time. This makes the animals’ conservation a uniquely challenging, international effort.
That effort needs a lot of work, researchers argue in the first-ever “State of the World’s Migratory Species” report published February 12 by the United Nations Environment Programme.
The report is the most comprehensive tally of the over 1,000 species protected under an international treaty called the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of
The Endangered Species Act is turning 50. Has it succeeded?
While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 because so many were shot, poisoned or captured.
The few remaining wild condors were brought into zoos in the early 1980s as part of a captive breeding program aimed at restoring the condor population (SN: 4/25/87). A small group of the birds reproduced, and
A new species of hedgehog stands out for its short spikes
Initially mistaken for one of its close relatives, a group of small, spiky mammals in eastern China has now been identified as a new species: the eastern forest hedgehog.
Researchers first scooped up one of these dark spike balls in the province of Anhui in 2018. It looked like a Hugh’s hedgehog (Mesechinus hughi), a species typically found some 1,000 kilometers west. But the rogue hedgehog’s DNA didn’t quite match that of its westward relatives. So scientists collected
Die USA schützen Vielfraße in Lower 48 gemäß dem Endangered Species Act
Der US-amerikanische Fisch- und Wildtierdienst gab am Mittwoch bekannt, dass er Vielfraße in den
UFO hunter who has studied ‘alien’ mummy for over a decade claims remains are an ancient species of tiny, cave-dwelling human
Chile’s mysterious, oblong-headed ‘Atacama skeleton’ may have once been a small class of terrestrial humanoid living in the high caves of the South American Andes, at least according to the man who has spent a decade studying the being.
This Spanish businessman and researcher who now owns the eerie, but tiny, skeletal mummy dropped his new theory on Spain’s Mitele TV network late last week.
Sensational origin stories have trailed Chile’s ‘Atacama skeleton’ ever since the six-inch-long ‘alien’ mummy was
