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NPR featured Greg LeClair on the program “All Things Considered.” The University of Maine master’s student of ecology and environmental sciences discussed his passion for studying amphibians. He also spoke about a recent study he led, through which he and his colleagues discovered that fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in spring 2020, when the […]
ORONO — Fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in spring 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, than during the season in other recent years, according to a new study led by a University of Maine graduate student and community science project...
Fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in spring 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, than during the season in other recent years, according to a new study led by a University of Maine graduate student and community science project coordinator. Vehicles kill many adult frogs, salamanders and other amphibians that cross roadways, particularly during their […]
The Wildest Animal News From 2020 These are the stories about birds, bugs, fish and mammals that surprised and delighted readers the most this year. Credit...Lily Benson Dec. 23, 2020 It was a rough year for Homo sapiens. The coronavirus pandemic highlighted our vulnerabilities in a natural world that is constantly changing. Many were pushed to find new levels of resolve and creativity to survive. While humans quarantined, birds, bugs, fish and mammals put their own ingenuity on display. The year 2020 was when murder hornets appeared in the United States, scientists introduced us to an octopu...