Biodiversity

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Why Great White Sharks Are Vanishing From the Mediterranean Science

Why Great White Sharks Are Vanishing From the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean's great white sharks are critically endangered — fewer than 250 likely remain. Scientists are racing to understand a population that...

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What Is Coral Bleaching and Why It Threatens Reefs Science

What Is Coral Bleaching and Why It Threatens Reefs

Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures sever the vital partnership between corals and their food-producing algae, turning reefs white a...

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What Are Bony Fish and Why All Land Animals Descend From Them Science

What Are Bony Fish and Why All Land Animals Descend From Them

Every amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal alive today — including humans — can trace its ancestry back to an ancient group of fish with mineralized s...

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What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists Science

What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists

Alvarezsaurs were a bizarre group of tiny, bird-like dinosaurs with stubby arms and a single giant claw. A near-complete fossil from Patagonia is fina...

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Earth's Biodiversity Boom: 16,000 New Species Found Yearly

A landmark University of Arizona study in Science Advances finds scientists are identifying more than 16,000 new species every year — the fastest rate...

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What Are Cryptic Species and How Are They Found? Science

What Are Cryptic Species and How Are They Found?

Beneath the surface of Earth's known biodiversity hides a vast shadow catalogue of look-alike species, genetically distinct but visually indistinguish...

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How Harmful Algal Blooms Form—and Why They're Spreading Science

How Harmful Algal Blooms Form—and Why They're Spreading

Harmful algal blooms—explosive growths of toxic algae—shut down beaches, poison drinking water, and kill fish. Here's the science behind why they form...

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How Bone Rings Reveal Dinosaur Age and Growth Science

How Bone Rings Reveal Dinosaur Age and Growth

Just like tree rings record years of growth, microscopic lines inside dinosaur bones hold the key to understanding how long these giants lived and how...

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Nature's Engine Slows: Species Turnover Down by a Third Science

Nature's Engine Slows: Species Turnover Down by a Third

A landmark global study finds that the rate at which species replace each other in ecosystems has slowed by roughly one-third since the 1970s — a para...

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Marine Fungus Found to Kill Toxic Red Tide Algae Science

Marine Fungus Found to Kill Toxic Red Tide Algae

Scientists have identified a new marine fungus, Algophthora mediterranea, that parasitizes and destroys toxic algae responsible for harmful coastal bl...

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How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Underestimated Science

How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Underestimated

Sea levels are rising faster than most models assumed—and a 2026 study found a systematic flaw in how scientists measure baseline coastal heights. Her...

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Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species Science

Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species

Killer whales look alike, but resident fish-eaters and mammal-hunting Bigg's orcas are so genetically and culturally distinct that researchers now arg...

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