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Technology, economics can help save endangered species: Research
Bioeconomic research is a multidisciplinary effort between economists and biologists to work together to see how human behavior interacts with...
Wild species can help feed the world
“Almost half the world’s population actually depend to a greater or lesser extent on the use of wild species. And it’s much more prevalent than most...
Mass extinction of a pre-historic kind
There are currently 142,500 animal and plant species on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — 40,000 of which...
Extinction mystery solved by computers mounted on critters
In 2017, a rosy wolf snail crawled along a sunlit trail in Tahiti with an unexpected passenger: a bespoke computer the size of an aphid, screwed...
Shrinking elephants once called Sicily their home
Elephants today are confined to the African and Asian continents. But their extinct relatives once roamed far and wide across the planet.
Dangerous Precedent: Vulnerable jumbos in Africa in earshot of...
While some African elephants parade across the savanna and thrill tourists on safari, others are more discreet. They stay hidden in the forests,...
World’s rarest turtle gets a shot at escaping extinction
In 2019, the world’s rarest turtle suffered a staggering loss. The last known female of the species, Swinhoe’s softshell turtle, died after an...
Climate change pushing Australia's platypus towards extinction:...
The platypus, which along with four species of echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs, is one of the world's strangest animals, with the bill of a...
