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Researchers estimate that Indo-Pacific corals release about 3.5 quintillion eggs in one spawning, the first figure of its kind. The authors offer it as a recovery baseline; the split between coral groups is the more usable part.
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Hylaeus navai, a Fijian canopy bee, lost about 99% of its effective population over roughly 150 years, a genetic reconstruction in Ecology and Evolution estimates. The bee was found only in 2024, so the history comes from its DNA.
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Seychelles Islands Foundation and University of Exeter researchers put Aldabra's giant tortoises at about 180,000 in the first rigorous atoll-wide count. Older surveys missed tortoises hidden in scrub, the authors say, so part of the rise from the 1990s figure of 100,000 comes from the change of method.
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Australian bee researchers say only three of the country's more than 1,700 native bee species are on the national threatened species list. Their review blames thin research funding for the missing data and sets out a conservation plan built on behaviour studies and long-term monitoring.
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University of the Sunshine Coast researchers call it the first detailed description of kleptoparasitism in any cetacean. The evidence is one identifiable animal across 20 logged encounters in four years, and no one has measured the energy saving.
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A University of Sydney survey of coral feeding scars on the Great Barrier Reef found crown-of-thorns starfish moving on before a colony died, with regrowth concentrated in the slow-growing corals Montipora and Porites.
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A variation partitioning study in Italy's Pollino National Park gave forest structure 23.5 percent of the variation in vascular plant composition and topography 12.8 percent, with another 31.3 percent shared between the two.
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Joseph Pfaller noticed a crab drop off almost the first yellow-bellied sea snake he handled in 2012, and the larvae he collected then waited about a decade in a Florida museum for a crab specialist to ask what they were.
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Texas A&M modeled where Ornithodoros turicata can survive. The answer covers most of Texas and points at southeastern Georgia, where nobody has recorded the tick yet.
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