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Chickens help autistic teen Summer Farrelly make sense of humans
While growing up, people didn’t make much sense to Summer Farrelly, but chickens always did. Living with autism…
The fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite protection promises
KYLEAKIN, Scotland — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye,…
Destructive bottom trawling in Scotland despite promises to protect oceans
KYLEAKIN, Scotland (AP) — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of…
Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos
Specimens All species included in this study were macropodiforms; the bone measurement dataset encompassed all extant families and…
Ocean changes could weaken sharks’ teeth, knocking them down food chain
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sharks are the most feared predators in the sea, and their survival hinges on…
Rare cheetah mummies found in Saudi caves
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia.…
Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
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Five rules for scientifically credible nature markets
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Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Sebé-Pedrós, A. et al. The dynamic regulatory genome of capsaspora and the origin of animal multicellularity. Cell 165,…
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than…
How a sperm bank might save cheetahs from extinction
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing…