FLORA AND FAUNA

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Flora and Fauna

Since 1955, William and Mary's Batten School and VIMS have run a Juvenile Finfish Trawl Survey in the Chesapeake Bay using a five-minute tow of a 20-foot net, and it now samples more than 1,200 sites every year to track how young fish populations shift decade to decade.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026

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Sea lamprey control has quietly become an integrated pest-management system: lampricides, physical barriers, pheromone-baited traps and sterile-male releases, refined over decades of adaptive trials against a parasite that filter-feeds for years as larvae before turning on native fish.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026

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In 1965, a bottlenose dolphin named Peter was taught to mimic English words in a flooded Caribbean house where researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt lived waist-deep in seawater with him for 10 weeks, and the dolphin learned to blow air through his blowhole to shape recognisable versions of 'hello' and 'ball'.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026

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When crews broke ground on a Mojave solar plant in California’s Ivanpah Valley, the permit allowed 38 adult desert tortoises to be moved — biologists then collected 166, and across the valley Fish and Wildlife would eventually release more than 9,100 into a fenced translocation site.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 24, 2026

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On Hutchinson Island, Florida, a nuclear plant's intake canal delivered 921 sea turtles to the screens in a single year — 557 of them green turtles — and crews put 97.7 per cent back in the Atlantic alive, as they have with more than 20,000 turtles since 1976.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 23, 2026

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In Ukraine's Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, camera traps found grey wolves living at seven times the density of those in uncontaminated reserves nearby — a predator boom in a landscape emptied of people after the reactor failed, not emptied of wildlife.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 23, 2026

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At Altamont Pass east of San Francisco, about 60 golden eagles are still killed each year by wind turbines standing on a ridge that is also home to more than 200 of the birds — including 21 pairs that keep nesting inside the wind farm itself.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 22, 2026

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South of Miami, a nuclear plant's 270 kilometres of cooling canals were never designed as habitat — yet they now hold the densest nesting ground for American crocodiles in the country, and last season crews tagged more than 600 hatchlings.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 22, 2026

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Yellowstone's returning wolves became famous for supposedly restoring forests and even reshaping rivers, but long-term research suggests the real ecological story is much more complicated

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 22, 2026

Flora and Fauna

Over its whole short life a single honeybee makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey, so the honey in one jar represents the entire life's work of hundreds of bees

By Mal James · Jul 25, 2026

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In the 1930s bedbugs had nearly vanished from developed homes, and their global comeback since the late 1990s is traced largely to the insects evolving resistance to the very insecticides that once wiped them out

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026

Flora and Fauna

A single female German cockroach in a warm kitchen can produce enough descendants in one year to number in the hundreds of thousands, which is why the ones you see are only the overflow of a population hidden behind the cabinets

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026

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We assume spiders wander indoors from the garden, but most house spiders are a distinct species that has lived alongside humans for so long it rarely survives outside, spending its entire life in the corners of the rooms we build

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jul 18, 2026

Flora and Fauna

The humble housefly tastes with its feet, detecting sugar the moment it lands, and it lives only two to four weeks, spending that short life within a few hundred metres of where it hatched

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026

Flora and Fauna

Titan is larger than the planet Mercury and sits about 1.5 billion kilometres from the sun, wrapped in an orange haze so complete that for decades no spacecraft could see its surface at all

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026

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Zimbabwe says poachers poison wildlife water holes

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jun 26, 2026