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Only 3 wild addax left in the world?

May 16, 2016

Only 3 wild addax left in the world? Antelope is on the edge of extinction due to poaching and habitat loss. Mary Jo DiLonardo Could these be the last three …

What Does a Dying Forest Sound Like?

May 16, 2016

What Does a Dying Forest Sound Like? As temperatures rise, scientists scramble to pinpoint trees in danger of drought Severe drought killed this stand of trembling aspen trees, Populus tremuloides, …

Tillandsia utriculata and Tillandsia xerographica

May 13, 2016

Oscar We are dropping the variegata from Tillandsia utriculata and Tillandsia xerographica. The trend these days is for variegates to be covered as Cultivars. They are only mutations anyway. Please …

What’s the Most Painful Sting?

May 13, 2016

What’s the Most Painful Sting? An Interview with ‘the King of Sting’ By Douglas Main The bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) has the most painful sting in the insect world. Juan …

Waking Up From a Nap!

May 13, 2016

Science In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap By JOANNA KLEIN MAY 6, 2016 Red-sided garter snakes. Upon emerging from their eight-month slumber, they get down …

The war on elephants

May 13, 2016

 The war on elephants How the very existence of Africa’s elephants is threatened by poachers, traffickers and Asia’s appetite for ivory By Alastair Leithead                         WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC …

Who is the 'Ivory Queen'?

May 13, 2016

Who is the ‘Ivory Queen’? 9 May 2016 Image copyright AFP A 66-year-old bespectacled Chinese woman may not be most people’s idea of an ivory smuggling kingpin, but that’s exactly …