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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
A Fungal Disease Ravaged North American Bats. Now, Researchers Found a Second Species That Suggests It Could Happen Again
White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be ...
Sciencing on MSN4d
Tragic Theories Why Horses Once Went Extinct In North America
Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...
AZ Animals on MSN10d
These Are the North American Animals Using Hibernation to Their Advantage
When an animal hibernates, it goes into a state of sleep or minimal activity. Hibernation allows many animals to survive ...
Unfettered Capitalism Nearly Wiped Out America’s Wild Animals Once. It Just May Again
During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...
8,000-pound sloths once roamed North America. Where’d they go?
The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.
A Fungus Devastated North American Bats. A New Species Could Deliver a Killer Blow.
Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged ...
Dallas Morning News2mon
Hunting considered ‘backbone’ of wildlife conservation in America. It’s not a new practice
Chris DePerno, a professor at North Carolina State University ... in the U.S. “Hunters do more to help wildlife than any other group in America,” he said in a university news release.