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Frozen sperm could help bring these giant sea stars back from the brink of extinction

Melissa Torres spent her Valentine's Day helping to usher new life into the world - in the form of millions of fertilized sea star eggs.

From the CBC News-2024-3-8:20:6:1


How documenting the disappearance of the great auk led to the discovery of extinction

In the book, The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, Gísli Pálsson retraces the journey of two English biologists who went looking for the rare great auk birds in Iceland. What they didn't find is how the world was first introduced to the idea of human-caused extinction.

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Endangered sage grouse could soon disappear from the Canadian Prairies

The greater sage grouse, which once numbered in the thousands in Western Canada, is coming perilously close to extinction on the Prairies, new government research shows.

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Genes: A Very Short Introduction, Second Ed., by Jonathan Slack, from Oxford University Press. (Mar 16).

The Royal Society has published "Evolution and sustainability: gathering the strands for an Anthropocene synthesis" compiled and edited by P.S. Jørgensen, T.M. Waring and V.P. Weinberger. Articles can be accessed directly at www.bit.ly/PTB1893 or available via print for £40.00 per issue from sales@royalsociety.org. (Mar 11).

Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research, Second Edition, Edited by Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Christopher Beatty, and Jason Bried, from Oxford University Press. (Mar 9).

The Readable Darwin: The Origin of Species Edited for Modern Readers, Second Edition, by Jan A. Pechenik, from Oxford University Press. (Mar 2).

Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms; Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres, by Alison Pouliot, from University of Chicago Press. (Feb 24).


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