‘Cannibal Snails’ Eat Species of Tiny Tree Snail into Extinction

The survival of an entire species of “incredibly endangered” tree snails has just been entrusted to the British Zoo. The population of tiny tree snails–they grow to be only a few millimeters long–has been decimated, eaten into extinction by a larger “cannibal snail.” Called the Rosy Wolfsnail, it arrived as an invasive species to the tree snail’s natural habitat of French Polynesia in the 1970s. The larger cannibal snails, along with habitat loss, have pushed the tree snail to extinction in the wild–there are now only 88 left in the world, in a lab in England.

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Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup

WildAid PSA with Olympian Amanda Beard. In China, it’s shark fin soup, in Japan it’s blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S

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Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup

80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis .

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80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild

10 Creatures That Conveniently Grow Back Body Parts (Slideshow)

photo via Webshots, efungus While humans have the reputation of being the most intelligent of Earth’s creatures, the higher you go on the food chain the less ability you have to regrow appendages. Yes, it’s too bad

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Underwater Bugs in Medicine – Caddisfly Silk Inspires Scotch Tape Solution for Surgeries

Image via University of Utah, credit Fred Hayes for the University of Utah This is a caddisfly larva, or a rock roller as it is also known. It’s a strange little bug that while in larva state, lives underwater and creates its own “shell” by spinning a sticky silk that collects sand grains

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Will Human Beings Save Their Primate Cousins?

There are less than 300 Cross River gorillas in the wild. At the time this was written there were 6,803,449,018 human beings on the planet

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John McCain: He Was For Climate Action Before He Was Against It

Arizona Senator John McCain, who is facing a primary challenge from uber conservative J.D.

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Fewer than 50 Wild Tigers Left in China, Says Wildlife Conservation Society

Photo: World66 , CC Wild tigers in China are on the Brink of Extinction Xie Yan, the China Country Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society , estimates that fewer than 50 South China Tigers are left in the wild, with about “10 still live in the southwestern province of Yunnan, some 15 in Tibet, and 20 or so in northwestern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.” Even if take a step back and look at 12 Asian countries and Russia, it is estimated that only about 3,500 tigers are left in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Destructive Impact of Invasive Species Measured In 57 Countries

Yup, even our sweet house cats are a destructive invasive species. Photo via Lincolnlog Invasive alien species have been measured for the first time in a large scale study that included 57 countries across the globe

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Australia Loves Winning Environmental Impact Trophies

This is getting downright embarrassing. Australia just keeps on winning the big ones, even nudging out our arch rival, the USA, in environmental impact.

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