Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar'
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Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar'
In August 2013, I happened upon a paper titled “The Silent Fire: ODAP and the Death of Christopher McCandless,” by Ronald Hamilton, which appeared to solve the conundrum. Hamilton’s essay, posted online, presented hitherto unknown evidence that the wild potato plant was in fact highly toxic, contrary to the assurances of Treadwell, Clausen, and app
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It’s estimated that, worldwide, reefs are home to between one and nine million species, though the scientists who conducted the crustacean study concluded that even the high-end estimates probably are too low. It is likely, they wrote, that “the diversity of reefs” has been “seriously under-detected.” This diversity is all the more remarkable in li
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Our ‘frog saunas’ could help save endangered species from the devastating chytrid fungus
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