The Firefox Mystery: Why the Red Panda Is the World’s Loneliest Species

For nearly two centuries, the true classification of the red panda was a mystery. Believed to be both a bear and a raccoon, ...
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From space to swamp: innovative AI method classifies mangrove species with unprecedented accuracy

Mangrove ecosystems, vital for biodiversity and climate change mitigation, face challenges in monitoring and conservation due to their complex species composition. A new study introduces an AI-driven ...
AOL

4 Species of Giraffe Explained: How Scientists Rethought the Classification of Giraffa

The official 4-species status was achieved only after reviewing recent genetic, morphological, and biogeographic studies on giraffes. The great reduction of price in genetic and genomic analyses ...
7News Miami

Proposed rule to keep Florida manatees as threatened species sparks controversy

FORT MYERS, Florida (WBBH) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed keeping manatees under a threatened species classification, which has sparked controversy as environmentalists argue they ...
THE WEEK

The difficult job of defining a species

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from tigers, or pigeons from flamingos, but details count ...
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Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

4 Species of Giraffe Explained: How Scientists Rethought the Classification of Giraffa

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is easily recognized across the world. With their long necks and distinctive ...