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Scientists want to send our endangered species to the Moon to “save” them
Scientists are considering using the moon's craters for cryopreserving endangered species' cells to…
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6,960 poachers arrested for killing, trafficking 2,869 wild animals in last 10 yrs: Minister
While the seized elephant tusks have been stored at the state government's treasury, the other s…
PTI
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Scientists discover new plant species in Arunachal Pradesh
The species is named to honor Dr Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, a scientist at the BSI, for his "signific…
PTI
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A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal
Locals found this first-of-a-kind Pleistocene wolf in Siberia. It's so mummified that scientists ho…
Jenny McGrath,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists name newly discovered ancient amphibian species after Kermit the Frog
Scientists think that the animal, which lived 270 million years ago, likely "resembled a stout sala…
Cameron Manley
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The safest place for some species of Florida coral? Land.
Researchers are moving some species of coral to land in order to preserve what's left of them follo…
Katie Hawkinson
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6 ways humans are transforming Antarctica from a pristine preserve to a polluted wasteland
Antarctica is one of the most pristine places on Earth, yet it's changing rapidly due to human encr…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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Exotic turtles have been poached to near-extinction in Asia, but in Hong Kong, these species thrive
Three species of turtles poached for sale in Asia are finding refuge in Hong Kong. But poachers cou…
Hannah Getahun
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A brand new dinosaur species with spiky armor was recently discovered to have roamed England during the Cretaceous period
A new dinosaur species, Vectipelta barretti, was discovered on the Isle of Wight. It's an entirely …
Jenny McGrath
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Earth is losing thousands of species each year, reveals research
Most dinosaurs famously disappeared 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. …
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Human activities disrupted even the most resilient species in the Earth's ecosystem: study
This impact is increasingly modifying natural ecosystems and threatening biodiversity, for example,…
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New Jersey's environmental agency called itself out for destroying two endangered birds' protected habitats while creating one for another species
New Jersey's environmental agency damaged land protected for two endangered bird species while tryi…
Insider Inc.
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Scientists estimate 9,000 tree species are still unknown to them
Mysterious trees unknown to science have probably remained a secret because they're so rare. Their …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel.
An Arctic ground squirrel is the latest in a series of mummified ice-age creatures that miners have…
Chris Panella,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Biologists found 5 new species of snakes and Leonardo DiCaprio named one that produces a 'musky and distasteful odor' after his mom
DiCaprio's snail-eating snake is found in Panama and is described as a "docile" reptile that never …
Hannah Getahun
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A 300 million-year-old fossilized fish has the world's 'oldest preserved vertebrate brain.' It offers new clues about evolutionary history, say scientists.
The ancient fish, distantly related to the salmon and goldfish, was found in a coal mine in England…
Isobel van Hagen
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A corpse flower that emits a dead-body odor went into a rare bloom in Poland, and hundreds waited in line to see and smell it
An endangered flower bloomed in Warsaw on Sunday. It smells like the rotten flesh pollinating insec…
Joey Hadden,Associated Press
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Refugees and war veterans are building a piece of Iraq in Philadelphia
Artists and a team of volunteers are constructing a traditional Iraqi building out of phragmites, o…
Charles Davis
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A tiny, invasive bug and the climate crisis are changing how guitars are made, and shifting the course of music history
Guitar-maker Fender says it's phasing out swamp ash, a storied wood used by rock legends like Jimmy…
Kelsey Vlamis
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An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago
Scientists were looking at how humans in southeast Asia today have some genes of an ancient human s…