October 17, 2026

Science

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Florida rebuilt a degraded offshore oyster reef with dolomite limestone in 2018; within six months live-oyster density rose from near zero to 91 per square metre, and by year five it had reached 244

Aj Mix Editor October 10, 2026
Florida restored a degraded oyster reef in 2018; density rose to 91 per sq m in six...
Read More Read more about Florida rebuilt a degraded offshore oyster reef with dolomite limestone in 2018; within six months live-oyster density rose from near zero to 91 per square metre, and by year five it had reached 244
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Meet Julian Shapiro, the 18-year-old New Yorker who discovered three unusual dwarf galaxies while still in high school, became sole author of an Astrophysical Journal paper and won a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship

Aj Mix Editor October 10, 2026
The galaxies, now catalogued as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, II and III, share an unusual combination of...
Read More Read more about Meet Julian Shapiro, the 18-year-old New Yorker who discovered three unusual dwarf galaxies while still in high school, became sole author of an Astrophysical Journal paper and won a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship
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Farmers brought this bird to the Galapagos to control cattle ticks; after one El Nino, thousands of them appeared across the islands replacing native birds |

Aj Mix Editor October 9, 2026
A group of three smooth-billed anis in Galapagos. Image Credit: Michael Dvorak/ Galapagos Conservation Trust The smooth-billed...
Read More Read more about Farmers brought this bird to the Galapagos to control cattle ticks; after one El Nino, thousands of them appeared across the islands replacing native birds |
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In 2004, Kris Tompkins’ conservation organisation acquired a 174,500-acre Chilean ranch and began restoring its grasslands and wildlife; in 2018 the ranch became part of a national park within a wider conservation effort that has helped protect nearly 15 million acres

Aj Mix Editor October 9, 2026
Patagonia National Park represents one part of a much larger effort by the Tompkinses to protect land...
Read More Read more about In 2004, Kris Tompkins’ conservation organisation acquired a 174,500-acre Chilean ranch and began restoring its grasslands and wildlife; in 2018 the ranch became part of a national park within a wider conservation effort that has helped protect nearly 15 million acres
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Scientists analysed 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils; their findings point to Europe as the likely birthplace of bats, challenging decades of evolutionary theories |

Aj Mix Editor October 9, 2026
Representative Image of diverse bats flying over Europe during the late Paleocene epoch ( AI Generrated Image)...
Read More Read more about Scientists analysed 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils; their findings point to Europe as the likely birthplace of bats, challenging decades of evolutionary theories |
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Scientists identified a new extinct crocodile species from the same Egyptian rocks used to build the Great Sphinx; even the fossil is missing the tip of its snout, echoing the monument

Aj Mix Editor October 8, 2026
According to a report published by Phys Org, the fossils were originally recovered during the 1920s from...
Read More Read more about Scientists identified a new extinct crocodile species from the same Egyptian rocks used to build the Great Sphinx; even the fossil is missing the tip of its snout, echoing the monument