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Jan 03
Jan 03
Conservation efforts have unintended effects
Chelonia mydas, a newly hatched baby green sea turtle. Photo: Shutterstock In Taiwan, saving the Green Sea Turtle on its preferred nesting island was the goal, but drastically impacting the native lizards species was the unintended result. Since 2001, on Badai Beach the only remaining suitable nesting spot on Orchard Island, researchers have protected every […]
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Gecko Fossil name honors Grandmother
Credit: Francisco Farriols Sarabia via Wikimedia Commons While studying lizard skulls at the National Dinosaur Monument in North Dakota, Dalton Meyer discovered a new species of fossilized Gecko. While inspecting a pair of skulls of previously labeled as European skink ancestors, the use of 3D imaging proved one to be exactly that, however the other […]
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