Biology
Conservationists are celebrating the return of the Tequila fish to Mexico’s rivers nearly two decades after going extinct © Chester Zoo The Tequila fish has been successfully reintroduced into the wild some 18 years after it was first reported as “missing” from its native habitat in Mexico and declared extinct, potentially offering a lifeline to …
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‘One of the best’ fossil finds named A 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil discovered in the UK last year termed “one of the greatest finds in British paleontological history” The sea dragon fossil unearthed © Twitter / @LeicsWildlife (Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust) Paleontologists in the UK have unearthed the fossils of a giant prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ …
New species A research team from Hakim Sabzevari University of Sabzevar city located in Khorasan Razavi province identified 5 new species of lizards for the fauna of Iran by conducting several research trips to Hormozgan, Fars, and Isfahan provinces, and introduced them to the world for the first time. These species belong to the family …
Around a million species might disappear within the next few decades, the conservation organization reports © Global Look Press / Michael Runkel The Earth is facing the biggest extinction event since the end of the dinosaur era, with a million species at risk of becoming extinct within the next few decades, the World Wildlife Fund …
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TEHRAN – A plan, called “breathing”, that banned any wood exploitation in endangered forests, has halted the cutting down of at least 550,000 cubic meters of forests annually or completely stopped the process. In January 2017 in line with the laws regulating all aspects of policymaking and project management with regard to environmental factors Majlis …
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