France's dilapidated National Museum of Natural History calls for help: 'The mineralized bones literally are exploding' The institution boasts strong visitor numbers and an international scientific reputation. But its head warns of catastrophic conditions, including mold in the collections, a flooded library, and crack...

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What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection

#biodiversity #indigenous dyes #Mollusca
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nice illustration!

I like beetles, I like them a lot. So I’ve written a book about them to indoctrinate children. dk.com/products/978...

That cassid has seen some battles!

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

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An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control A rogue mushroom is ripping through North American forests, after escaping from cultivation. As it runs riot, mushroom enthusiasts are rescuing the native fungi in its path.

I did not know about carnivorous fungi.
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Harpalinae, one of the largest subfamilies of beetles in the world with ~19,000 species, but not as you know it! #taxonomy #systematics #entomology #MuseumCollections resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Prokaryota to Eukaryota
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Tiny fish prove adept at climbing waterfalls Scientists discovered a tiny fish that can climb up a 50-foot waterfall in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a rare feat for a small fish.

rock-climbing fish rock-climbing fish www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Science Friday: Segments | WNYC Studios | Podcasts The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

#AnimalArchitecture #spiders #silk neat conversation with expert Cheryl Hayashi: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/sci...

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Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
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Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...

1250 books of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ were printed at first in the UK. This copy lives at the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City. First editions are valued at auctions for >$300,000......IF they come to market.

Reverence for historical figures & texts! Touching Wallace’s 1853 book of his travels on the #Amazon
Linda Hall Library #KansasCity

Trump administration will pay a French company $1 billion in taxpayer funds to not build wind farms | CNN The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean an...

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Fantastic viewing this week, great warm weather. 1/2 million birds

Texas's state animals, armadillos, are making North Carolina their home Armadillos are making North Carolina their home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with wildlife biologist Colleen Olfenbuttel about how Texas' state mammal has gotten a foothold in the Tar Heel State.

#AnimalArchitecture #ecosystem #EngineeringJobs www.npr.org/2026/03/15/n...

"Humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you'd need five more Earths," biologist Paul R. Ehrlich told 60 Minutes in 2023.

Ehrlich died Friday at 93. cbsn.ws/3Nt4PDR

'We’re constantly surprised': The strange deep-sea creatures that eat whales From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

A pop. lit. piece from the BBC discussing whalefall ecology. Lots of our favorite critters get a mention: hagfish, scale worms, snot flower worms, amphipods

We’re constantly surprised': The strange deep-sea creatures that eat whales share.google/amJpU2HEyDqs...

A new drug could be the beginning of the end for sleeping sickness The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job.

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Mezcal's popularity is booming in the US. That comes with a growing environmental cost in Mexico As mezcal has spread to bars around the world, so has its footprint on the land. While the boom has brought economic benefits for many local producers, it’s also led to rising environmental costs.

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Diurnal fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Ellychnia spp.) are active in the daytime, unlike their nocturnal relatives. The adult beetles don't produce light to attract mates and instead rely on chemical attractants. Blissfield Michigan, 22 Jun 2025.

Diurnal fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Ellychnia spp.) are active in the daytime, unlike their nocturnal relatives. The adult beetles don't produce light to attract mates and instead rely on chemical attractants. Blissfield Michigan, 22 Jun 2025.

Diurnal fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Ellychnia spp.) are active in the daytime, unlike their nocturnal relatives. The adult beetles don't produce light to attract mates and instead rely on chemical attractants. Blissfield Michigan, 22 Jun 2025.

Macro photograph of a pearly white to rose colored leaf beetle with a metallic green head, pronotum, and various lines and blobs on its back, standing on a grean leaf with a number of flower buds at upper left.

A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.

Anti‐Predation and Size‐Dependent Gas Exchange Functions of Amazonian Architect Cicada Towers Clay towers built by cicada nymphs before metamorphosis are poorly understood. We experimentally show that towers of the Amazonian cicada Guyalna chlorogena reduce predation risk and exhibit size-dep...

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