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As global genetic diversity declines, conservation efforts offer some hope
By Kristine Sabillo Genetic diversity within many species is declining globally, according to a recently published study.
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Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Snail Darter’s Taxonomic Status
In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...
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The Most Endangered Marine Mammal Lives In The Gulf Of California, But There's Less Than A Dozen Left
Without massive conservation efforts put into place soon, this endangered marine mammal will likely not make it to the end of the decade.
National Fisherman4d
Policy shifts, genetic insights shape the king crab fishery
The future of Alaska’s red king crab fishery is at a turning point. Proposed changes to the fishery’s management in Southeast ...
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Southern Norway fishermen seek release of millions of fish into fjords
A large majority of recreational and professional fishermen, along with the fishing tourism industry in the Agder region, ...
A North Carolina wildlife crossing will save people. Can it save the last wild red wolves too?
For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that ...
Octopuses have some of the oldest known sex chromosomes, study finds
The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...
Jaw Wars: How Bats Evolved a Diverse Arsenal of Teeth for Survival
Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
See the First-Ever Photographs of the Elusive Mount Lyell Shrew, Finally Caught on Camera in California
A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...
A century of fad diets – from the F-plan to Keto and the raw food movement – what really works?
From cabbage soup to the F-plan, quick fix diets promise everything from miracle weight loss to eternal youth – but do any of ...