A chance encounter in the forests of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, has led scientists to a startling realization: As Jon Martin, a forestry professor at the state’s Northland College, discovered after ...
A new study describes a newly discovered third species of flying squirrel in North America -- now known as Humboldt's flying squirrel, or Glaucomys oregonensis. It inhabits the Pacific Coast region of ...
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Scientists always assumed it was a northern flying squirrel gliding through the canopies of Pacific coastal forests. But now a recent in-depth investigation of the animal's DNA is proving otherwise.
Nature is more colourful than most of us realize. Many plants and animals have been found to sport dazzling fluorescent patterns that are visible only under ultraviolet light. Paula Spaeth Anich and ...
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