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The government wants to protect the habitat of a rare snake that lays 5-inch-long eggs

Louisiana pinesnakes can grow up to 5 feet long, and they spend half their time underground.

Fortune · Nov 7, 2022

US: Protect Louisiana, Texas land for rare burrowing snake

The U.S. government says four areas in Louisiana and two in Texas should be protected as critical habitat for a rare snake that eats small gophers and takes over their burrows

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2022

Emperor penguins get Endangered Species Act protection – with 98% of colonies at risk of extinction by 2100, can it save them?

Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve. With too little sea ice,…

The Conversation · Oct 31, 2022

Tricolored bats could become endangered as a fungal disease decimates their population

White-nose syndrome is killing off many bat colonies across North America. The same disease is decimating the northern long-eared bat population, which is also on the brink of extinction.

WEKU · Sep 13, 2022

Dennis Anderson: Are biologists counting ducks that aren’t there? Maybe

Aldo Leopold said early last century that few species were as difficult to manage as ducks.

Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022

Prehistoric fish may spawn in Georgia: 1st time in 50 years

Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs — an indication that the prehistoric fish may be reproducing in Georgia for the first time in a half-century

The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2022

Massive flying carp frenzy triggered by researchers

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday shared a striking image showing silver carp leaping en masse during a scientific electrofishing operation.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 6, 2022

Moving sea otters up the Northern California and Oregon coast — and maybe into San Francisco Bay — is feasible, federal government concludes

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Relocating sea otters to places in Northern California and Oregon where they haven’t lived for generations, including possibly using helicopter rides to move a few dozen from the Monterey Bay area into San Francisco Bay, is feasible and could help expand populations of the endangered marine…

Tribune News Service · Jul 28, 2022

Monarch butterflies join Red List of endangered species

On July 21, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature placed the migratory monarch butterfly on its Red List of threatened species and classified it as endangered. Monarchs migrate across North America each year and are one of the continent’s most widely recognized species. The Conversation asked Oklahoma…

The Conversation · Jul 26, 2022

Travel for Two: Okefenokee Swamp lures you in with its peaceful, haunting beauty

Call it what you will — primordial, mystifying, daunting, backwater or, above all, magnificent in that swamp sort of way — the Okefenokee Swamp is one of Georgia’s most beloved treasures. Covering some 700 square miles in southeastern Georgia and the very northern reaches of Florida, the Okefenokee, whose name…

Tribune News Service · Jul 25, 2022