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No one sowed it, but a Norfolk rapeseed field cut for hay once a year from 2011 held 86 plant species by 2022, including 11 not recorded elsewhere in its square kilometre, and a yellow rattle whose nearest known population is 3.4 kilometres away (opens the original)
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A 1.7-hectare field in North Norfolk that was farmed with fertilisers and other agrochemicals until its last crop of oilseed rape in 2005 had become a species-rich hay meadow by 2022 without any seed being sown. The number of plant species recorded across the field rose from 63 in 2011 to 86 in 2022, and the number not recorded anywhere else in plant surveys of its 1-kilometre grid square went from none to 11. The only regular management was an annual hay cut from 2011 onward, with the cuttings
Three adult male lions at an Australian safari park given about 200 kilograms of whole kangaroo and goat carcasses every nine days spent almost three times as long feeding on carcass days and lay down about twice as much as before, but their pacing rose over the three-month study instead of falling (opens the original)
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Adult male lions given about 200 kilograms of whole carcasses every nine days at Monarto Safari Park in South Australia spent almost three times as long feeding on carcass days as they had on their usual diet, and across the carcass-feeding months spent about twice as much time lying down. The study followed three males, all aged nine, with cameras recording around the clock for three months. Their pacing also went up over the trial, which the researchers had expected to go down. The work, whose
Thousands of octopuses nest 10,500 feet below California’s coast, where warm springs help their eggs hatch faster (opens the original)
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About 130 kilometers southwest of Monterey, California, a low ridge on the flank of an extinct underwater volcano called Davidson Seamount holds one of the densest gatherings of octopuses ever documented. The site, which researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute named the Octopus Garden, sits 3,200 meters, or roughly 10,500 feet, beneath the surface of the Pacific, deep enough that sunlight never reaches it and the water hovers barely above freezing. A single high-resolution vi
Volunteers helped replant a former Illinois corn and soybean field with 82 prairie species, and a 2025 study found an average of 68.8 of them still present per plot six years later, matching the diversity of nearby prairie remnants (opens the original)
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For most of the 20th century, the land along the Illinois River near the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge in Putnam County grew corn and soybeans. The Hennepin Drainage and Levee District had drained the site’s wetlands in 1908, installing pumps and levees that turned marsh into farmland. The Wetlands Initiative, a Chicago-based conservation nonprofit, bought roughly 2,760 acres of that former farmland in 2000 (the refuge’s footprint grew to more than 3,000 acres with a later addition) and shut the draina
A dinosaur previously known only from North America has turned up in eastern Spain. Paleontologists pulled fourteen tail vertebrae out of rock around 150 million years old and identified them as Diplodocus. (opens the original)
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On their own, a set of tail bones is not the kind of find that makes headlines. What made these ones unusual was their identification. The bones pointed to a dinosaur genus that, for nearly a century and a half, had never been confirmed outside the western United States. The puzzle is simple to state and harder to solve. Why does a dinosaur famous for its American fossils appear to be buried in Spain? Diplodocus is one of the most recognizable long-necked dinosaurs: a whip-tailed giant from the
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