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Areas getting 'beaver ready' for possible release

Beavers were brought back to the Forest of Dean eight years ago, centuries after their UK extinction.

From the BBC News-2026-4-21:14:6:1

Can a nature corridor increase London's biodiversity?

The nature corridor would stretch from the Lee Valley Regional Park to the Thames via Tower Hamlets.

From the BBC News-2026-4-21:8:5:1

3rd annual Fossil Day teaches P.E.I. kids how to find prehistoric treasures

Prince Edward Island is rich with fossils from the Permian period, roughly 290 million years ago. A lot of the known specimens in the province are discovered by children, making the third annual Fossil Day in Charlottetown that much more important for teaching young people how to identify them. CBC P.E.I. went to check it out.

From the CBC News-2026-4-14:14:6:1

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Eve: How the Female Body Drive 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

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Apr 21 20:00Emergence of genetic sex determination in an environmentally sex-determined animal - Wen Wei, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 21 20:00Simple biological controllers drive the evolution of soft modes - Christopher Joel , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 21 16:00When energy is scarce, evolution selects dormancy - Christopher P. , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 21 16:00Forest recovery pathways after fire, drought, and windstorms in southeastern Amazonia - Leandro Maracahipes, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 21 16:00The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians - Mariana Harris, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 21 16:00Evolvable AI: Threats of a new major transition in evolution - Viktor Müller, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 21 16:00Polychaete annelids from the earliest Cambrian Period - Xiaofeng Xian, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 20 14:03Adaptive evolution of odorant receptors is associated with elaborations of social organization in ants by Yoann Pellen and others (MBE)
Apr 20 14:03Genome-wide SNP data reveals hidden hierarchic population structure and demographic history of endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) by Yitian Li and others (MBE)
Apr 20 14:03Examining the role of a chromosomal inversion in accumulating adaptive and barrier loci in a cold-adapted insect species by N Poikela and others (GBE)
Apr 19 14:03Multiple losses of ecdysone receptor genes in nematodes: an alternative evolutionary scenario of molting regulation by Shumpei Yamakawa and others (MBE)

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