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Q and A - Are White Squirrels Albinos? - Question - NYTimes.comSquirrels of White Q. There are an incredible number of white squirrels living here in Pensacola, Fla., on the Gulf Coast. Are they albinos? How would it be genetically possible to have so many in one community? A. Significant sightings of white or albino squirrels have been reported in ...
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DIY Bedbug Detector | Wired Science | Wired.comAfter trying some 50 arrangements of household objects, researchers have come up with a new low-cost, homemade bedbug detector. To lure the bugs out of hiding, Wan-Tien Tsai of Rutgers University in New Brunswick put dry ice into an insulated, one-third-gallon jug, the kind available at sports ...
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Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North AmericaIf the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way there, according to a University of California, Berkeley, and Pennsylvania State ...
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New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction - NYTimes.comNew Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil ...
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Forests fall to beetle outbreak - Yahoo! NewsFrom the vantage point of an 80-foot (25 meter) tower rising above the trees, the Wyoming vista seems idyllic: snow-capped peaks in the distance give way to shimmering green spruce. But this is a forest under siege. Among the green foliage of the healthy spruce are the orange-red needles of the ...
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Hidden Whale Culture Could Be Critical to Species Survival | Wired Science | Wired.comThough it sounds at first like a marine biologist’s take on political correctness, respecting the cultural diversity of whales may be essential to saving them. Scientists are accustomed to thinking of whale populations in terms of genetic diversity. But even when they share the same genes, ...
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Deadly Parasite Could Endanger Salmon and Trout PopulationsStocks of the UK’s Atlantic salmon along with varieties of domestic Brown trout could be under threat from a deadly parasite according to research led Bournemouth University (BU) published in the International Journal of Parasitology. Lead author of the paper Dr Rodolphe Gozlan believes the ...
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Video Revives Lake Champlain Monster Mystery - ABC NewsFor hundreds of years, residents of New York and Vermont have swapped stories of a mysterious underwater creature living in the expansive Lake Champlain. Although locals say it has been spotted more than 300 times, it has only been caught on camera once, decades ago. So skeptics abound, ...
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Study Shows Ancient Mammals Wintered In Darkness - US News and World ReportAncestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy forests, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Awaiting the Return of the MonarchsYoung Monarch Caterpillar After the egg hatches the hungry caterpillar emerges and begins to feed immediately. The eggs are deposited upon one of several varieties of the family milkweed. Eating the slightly toxic leaves will impart a bitter taste to the caterpillar which extends into its ...
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