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Virginia could harvest more than 300,000 bushels of oysters from the Chesapeake Bay for the first time since the late 1980s, when severe restrictions were put in place, to combat overharvesting, disease and consumption by predators…

Researchers claim that moose are potentially a leading cause of climate change and that the species should be balanced, suggesting they are "one of the biggest potential single sources of carbon emissions from wooded parts of Norway."The…

Mando gets straight to the point when he visits Peli Motto on "The Mandalorian" Season 3, Episode 2, but Grogu is excited to see her. Upon catching sight of the crafty mechanic, the toddler leaps out of Din's ship and…

14-foot python found dead along Medford, Long Island, road…

An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa. In this Discovery episode of The Conversation Weekly, we…

There’s a new species of magic mushroom - named after Paul StametsPaul Stamets Paul Stamets has been a forty year overnight success. Fresh on the back of $60 million of new investment for his start-up MycoMedica, the undisputed magic…

New funding from the provincial government is aimed at protecting the endangered Massasauga rattlesnake, the only venomous snake in Ontario.In front of a crowd at the Ojibway Nature Centre, David Piccini, minister of environment,…

SANTA CRUZ — Emeritus Director of Research at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden Stephen McCabe has recently described and named two new species of succulent plants, which he found growing on a remote island off the coast of…

It’s possible we’ve seen more of the moon and of Mars than we have of the oceans on Earth. Their depths are so vast, they’re impossible to simplify. It’s futile attempting to pile Eiffel towers or Everests one on the other to offer a sense…

One of the few remaining individuals of the rarest whale species in the world is now "likely to die" after becoming severely entangled, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. The 4-year-old marine mammal…