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[Link] Ivermectin could save rare Australian sea lion from deadly parasite

Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

Ivermectin has gained notoriety as an unproven prophylactic and therapy for COVID-19, but it has traditionally been used in human and veterinary medicine for parasitic infections. Hookworm contributes to up to 40 per cent of sea lion pup deaths.

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[Link] Man Experiences ‘Scrotal Necrosis’ After Cobra Bites His Balls

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

The 47-year-old patient was on vacation in South Africa at a wildlife reserve when the cobra surprised him from below.

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[Link] Jellyfish Keep Attacking Nuclear Power Plants

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

Jellyfish are continuing to clog the cooling intake pipes of a nuclear power plant in Scotland, which has previously prompted a temporary shutdowns of the plant.

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[Link] Colombia Is Finally Sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s Hippos

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Colombia’s Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Negro and Nare Rivers (Cornare), an environmental agency, announced the sterilizations of 24 of the more than 80 hippos residing in the rivers near Escobar’s former Hacienda Napoles compound last week.

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[Link] Wildlife officers complete two-year quest to remove tyre from elk's neck

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The elk was first spotted with the tyre more than two years ago, during a wildlife survey. Speaking in 2020 about how the elk may have wound up like that, Mr Murdoch speculated it would have become stuck while the elk was young, before it grew antlers.

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[Link] As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder

Read: 23/9/2021 gizmodo.com

The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK.

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[Link] Monsoon Rains Just Washed Away Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

The damage caused by the recent rains is the latest in a series of incidents that have exposed flaws in the construction of the wall, which cost U.S. taxpayers–not Mexico, as Trump had repeatedly promised–an estimated $15 billion. 

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[Link] Crocodile attacks two soldiers swimming at Portland Roads in Far North Queensland

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Another man, in his 30s, was slashed on his wrist and arm. The pair are Army soldiers and are believed to have been swimming just before 5:00pm on Friday near the coastal fishing village, Portland Roads, about 800 kilometres north of Cairns.

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[Link] Wildcats return to Netherlands after centuries’ absence

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

They disappeared centuries ago, but wildcats have returned to the forests of the southern Netherlands, local conservationists have said.

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[Link] Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Try and Rebuild America's Forests

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Wildfires have destroyed an average of 7 -million acres of American forest every year since 2000. This fragments ecosystems, kills off wildlife, and shrinks our best natural weapon against greenhouse gas emissions: trees. The latest version of the $1.

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[Link] Amber Fossil Shows ‘Hell Ant’ Was Unlike Anything Alive Today

Read: 7/8/2021 www.smithsonianmag.com

Some 99 million years ago an ant unlike any alive today was in the midst of a savage scythe-jawed attack when dripping plant resin froze the insect, along with its prey, in a final predatory tableau.

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[Link] An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish the DNA to take over the world

Read: 5/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org

It sounds like a bad monster movie plot: A 10-legged mutant creature that reproduces asexually, escapes from confinement in Germany, and quietly begins a global invasion.

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[Link] Baby turtles ingest more plastic than adults due to how they eat, where they live

Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Baby turtles are more likely to consume plastic waste polluting the ocean than adults because of their eating habits, an international team of researchers has found.

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[Link] In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theguardian.com

Every evening in Sydney, clouds of bats move across the sky.

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