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  • Thumbnail for Wildlife Conservation Society
    The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that aims to conserve...
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    Honey hunting or honey harvesting is the gathering of honey from wild bee colonies. It is one of the most ancient human activities and is still practiced...
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    Priscomyzon riniensis is an extinct lamprey that lived some 360 million years ago during the Famennian (Late Devonian) in a marine or estuarine environment...
    9 KB (1,019 words) - 17:53, 18 December 2023
  • The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, known as HANZAB, is the pre-eminent scientific reference on birds in the region, which includes...
    3 KB (425 words) - 07:24, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Panicum sumatrense
    Panicum sumatrense, known as little millet, is a species of millet in the family Poaceae. This species of cereal is similar in habit to the proso millet...
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  • Thumbnail for Giant barred frog
    The giant barred frog (Mixophyes iteratus) is a species of barred frog found in Australia. It occurs from south-eastern Queensland to just south of the...
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  • The Coeur d'Alene salamander (Plethodon idahoensis) is a species of woodland salamander (Plethodon) in the family of lungless salamanders (Plethodontidae)...
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  • Thumbnail for Roth's tree frog
    Roth's tree frog (Litoria rothii), or the northern laughing tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea...
    4 KB (391 words) - 06:54, 18 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Henry H. Slater
    Henry Horrocks Slater (1851–26 November 1934) was an English parson-naturalist who studied ornithology, entomology, and botany. Slater was born in Stanhope...
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  • Hexameroceras is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods belonging to the order Oncocerida that lived during the middle and late Silurian. Its fossils have been...
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  • The New Alchemy Institute was a research center that did pioneering investigation into organic agriculture, aquaculture and bioshelter design between 1969...
    4 KB (537 words) - 23:59, 4 March 2023
  • Bredyia is a genus of ammonites from the lower part of the Middle Jurassic, found in Europe and North America. Bredyia is a member of the Hammatoceratidae...
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  • Thumbnail for Compsoptera opacaria
    Compsoptera opacaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in south-western Europe, including Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. The wingspan...
    2 KB (87 words) - 17:17, 12 December 2023
  • Blakeoceras is a nautiloid cephalopod from the Oncocerida family Nothoceratidae with a curved shell that lived in shallow seas from the Silurian to the...
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  • The State University of Campinas Institute of Biology (Portuguese: Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas) is a research and higher...
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  • José da Costa Sacco (1930 – 11 February 2023) was a Brazilian botanist. Sacco was a professor at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas and is still living...
    2 KB (248 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024