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Why Primitive Horseshoe Crabs are so Crucial and Handy Strategies to Help us Conserve them.

In this article, we’ll see how these horseshoe crabs have been used by traditional and modern cultures and learn a little bit about their biology and ecology. We’ll also see how horseshoe crab blood is used to make injections and other medical procedures safer for us. Read it on Medium.

These Birds Need Your Help Now!

Two citizen science projects are being organized by Birds Canada and they would love to have you join them! And you don’t really need to know anything about birds to participate!…More

What is the Intimate Connection Between Delicious Spot Prawns and Diseased Starfish?

Is the loss of starfish affecting the supply and price of our delicious spot prawns?

In this article, you’ll learn how the populations of both starfish and spot prawns also depend on 2 other species, sea urchins and kelp. And how the decline in the starfish population due to a wasting disease is affecting the supply of our spot prawns…More

Do You Know Why Snakes Slither?

Fossil evidence and genetic analyses are beginning to reveal how prehistoric snakes lost their limbs and developed such a streamlined body…More

Will Their Sense of Smell Ultimately Help Honey Bees to Survive?

Honey Bees are dying at an unprecedented rate! The bees use their sense of smell to remove dead and dying bees from the hive and some bees do it better than others. Is this a trait that beekeepers can use to help stop their hives from dying out? More….