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What Are Lathanites In Star Trek? The Species Explained

Of course, Lanthanies aren’t the only species on “Star Trek” that lives significantly longer than humans. On “Star Trek: The…

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Environment

‘They are a species on the brink’: can trees save the salmon in Scotland’s River Dee? | Rivers

On an unusually hot May day in Aberdeenshire, Edwin Third stands on the bank of the River Muick, a tributary…

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Environment

‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report | Birds

More than 500 bird species could vanish within the next century, researchers have found, calling for urgent “special recovery programmes”…

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Environment

Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe | Invasive species

In Kassel, everyone has a story about raccoons. Some struggle with a family of them that moved into their roof…

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World

Africa’s pangolin crisis: The delicacy that’s driving a species to the brink

The vast majority of pangolin hunting in African forest landscapes is done for meat consumed by people in the region,…

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Health

Two plant species invent the same chemically complex and medically interesting substance

The elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway of ipecacuanha alkaloids shows how two distantly related plant species could develop the same…

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World

Mystery of ‘very odd’ elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs — some of the most famous in North America — have just been formally…

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Environment

How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare | Invasive species

For his entire life, John Lmakato has lived in Lerata, a village nestled at the foot of Mount Ololokwe in…

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Environment

‘A horror movie’: sharks and octopuses among 200 species killed by toxic algae off South Australia | South Australia

More than 200 marine species, including deepwater sharks, leafy sea dragons and octopuses, have been killed by a toxic algal…

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Environment

Less than 1% of UK biosecurity budget goes on tackling invasive species, figures show | Invasive species

Less than 1% of the government’s biosecurity budget goes on tackling invasive species, despite the danger they pose to British…

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