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Scientists Uncover Regeneration Clues Hidden in Brittle Sea Star DNA

Scientists Uncover Regeneration Clues Hidden in Brittle Sea Star DNA

They have no brain, no eyes, and no heart—yet brittle stars are traveling the world, regrowing lost limbs, and carrying more DNA than some plants.

Scientists Uncover Regeneration Clues Hidden in Brittle Sea Star DNA

They have no brain, no eyes, and no heart—yet brittle stars are traveling the world, regrowing lost limbs, and carrying more DNA than some plants.

Ractopamine Is Banned Worldwide But Still Poisons America’s Food Supply

Ractopamine Is Banned Worldwide But Still Poisons America’s Food Supply

In the final days of life for millions of pigs, cows, and turkeys raised in American factory farms, a drug called ractopamine is quietly shaping their bodies — and endangering...

Ractopamine Is Banned Worldwide But Still Poisons America’s Food Supply

In the final days of life for millions of pigs, cows, and turkeys raised in American factory farms, a drug called ractopamine is quietly shaping their bodies — and endangering...

French Polynesia Blocks Industrial Fishing By Creating The World's Largest Marine Protected Area

French Polynesia Blocks Industrial Fishing By Creating The World's Largest Marine Protected Area

The Pacific Ocean is in crisis. Overfishing, deep-sea mining, and climate change have pushed marine ecosystems to the edge — but one small island territory just made a move that...

French Polynesia Blocks Industrial Fishing By Creating The World's Largest Marine Protected Area

The Pacific Ocean is in crisis. Overfishing, deep-sea mining, and climate change have pushed marine ecosystems to the edge — but one small island territory just made a move that...

SeaWorld’s Supplier Rips Endangered Giant From Wild Waters

SeaWorld’s Supplier Rips Endangered Giant From Wild Waters

A giant manta ray fought for her life off Florida’s coast—thrashing, panicked, and visibly suffering. Tourists watched in horror as a commercial boat crew hauled the endangered creature from the...

SeaWorld’s Supplier Rips Endangered Giant From Wild Waters

A giant manta ray fought for her life off Florida’s coast—thrashing, panicked, and visibly suffering. Tourists watched in horror as a commercial boat crew hauled the endangered creature from the...

Florida’s New Boating Law Opens the Floodgates to Marine Exploitation

Florida’s New Boating Law Opens the Floodgates to Marine Exploitation

Poachers may have just been handed a loophole the size of the Gulf. Florida’s controversial Boater Freedom Act removes key enforcement powers from officers patrolling the water—leaving springs, seagrass beds,...

Florida’s New Boating Law Opens the Floodgates to Marine Exploitation

Poachers may have just been handed a loophole the size of the Gulf. Florida’s controversial Boater Freedom Act removes key enforcement powers from officers patrolling the water—leaving springs, seagrass beds,...

Close-up of a small frog on mossy ground.

Discover Bhupathy’s Purple Frog: India’s Unique Underground Amphibian Species

Bhupathy’s purple frog, a unique subterranean amphibian from India’s Western Ghats, highlights evolution and continental drift.

Discover Bhupathy’s Purple Frog: India’s Unique Underground Amphibian Species

Bhupathy’s purple frog, a unique subterranean amphibian from India’s Western Ghats, highlights evolution and continental drift.