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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office issued a warning Tuesday about a species closely related to a jellyfish washing up on local beaches. The presence of the Portuguese ...
Ontario's government wants to "unleash" its resources with sweeping changes to its laws on protecting species at risk aimed at speeding up environmental approvals. "With President Trump taking ...
A council could take action to stop “stupid people” from feeding gulls the size of “pterodactyls” in Belton, near Great Yarmouth.
A parish council meeting heard that a member of the public had complained about people feeding the gulls in the Bracon Road area ... There are three species of gulls in particular that have ...
The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule that would limit what constitutes “harm” under the law to only ...
Six venomous snake species are native to Florida, including three rattlesnake species. Snakes are most active during warmer months, starting in the late spring and carrying on throughout the summer.
Currently, the Endangered Species Act prohibits certain actions that “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” threatened and endangered organisms. Until now, “harm” ...
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, sebecids were top predators until they went extinct during the Miocene.
Not the kind you’ll find on a piece of jewelry, though – these ones come in the form of a brand-new, teeny tiny, and super shiny species of poison dart frog. When we say “super shiny”, we ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of mosquito along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania which they say is highly resistant to insecticides. It is provisionally named ‘Pwani molecular form, ...