animals
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‘Her Neck Was Raw and Bleeding:’ Pet Owners Begged Feds for Help With Deadly Seresto Flea Collars
When you put a protective flea collar on your dog or cat, the last thing you expect is for that product to hurt your pet. Or kill them. Enter Seresto Flea and Tick Collars, which did just that. At least 2,340 pets are believed to have been killed by Seresto collars.
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How Can AI Help Us Ward off New Pandemics?
When a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But COVID-19 won’t be the last disease to jump across from the shrinking wild. Just this weekend, it was announced that Australia, is no longer an onlooker, as Canada, the US and European countries scramble to contain monkeypox, a less dangerous relative…
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Expect These 63 Animals to Be Extinct by 2041 if We Do Nothing
It feels a bit strange to publish a paper that we want proved wrong – we have identified the 63 Australian birds, mammals, fish, frogs and reptiles most likely to go extinct in the next 20 years. Australia’s extinction record is abysmal, and we felt the best way to stop it was to identify the…
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Whale Sharks Keep Crashing Into Ships
The oceans’ gentle giants are being wiped out by human activity, new research shows.