ENVIRONMENT, NATURE & SCIENCE TRENDS :: CULTURE DECANTED

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  Researchers Estimate Humans Have Driven Over 100,000 Species to Extinction

  My Modern Met - Regina Sienra

  According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, 777 animals have gone extinct since the beginning of the modern era in 1500. While some of those extinctions occurred due to natural causes, human impact has most certainly worsened conditions for many vulnerable …

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  UK Zoo Finally Breeds 240 Million-Year-Old Three-Eyed Reptile

  theamazelab - Amaze Lab

  Tuataras have lived on this planet for some 240 million years, predating even the dinosaurs. Today there are only around 50,000 of them left in the wild, with fossil records indicating that they have gone extinct everywhere else in the world save for New Zealand.

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  Same-Sex Couples are Underreported in the Animal Kingdom

  One Green Planet - By Trinity Sparke

  George Murray Levick’s groundbreaking observations during the Scott Antarctic expedition of 1911-12 revealed a surprising aspect of Adélie penguin …

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  Butterfly takes epic 2,600-mile transatlantic flight, stuns scientists

  newatlas.com - By Bronwyn Thompson

  In a world first, scientists have discovered that painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) have used favorable winds and a strategy of active flying …

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  Evolution May Be Purposeful And It’s Freaking Scientists Out

  Forbes - Andréa Morris

  “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a frustrated biophysicist, Royal Society fellow and pioneer of the field of systems biology. “They don’t exist. Where will they be? They won’t exist.” Since mapping the human genome in 2003, research priorities and funding shifted significantly …