Extinct plant thought to have died out in the 1980s is found blossoming on Macquarie Island A plant believed to be extinct has been found on sub-Antartic Macquarie Island Galium antarcticum, a bedstraw, was thought to have died out in the early 1980s In May, three new populations were discovered in a different part of … Read more
Scientists rediscover a rare type of ‘blue’ bee in Florida, which had been presumed extinct for four years after commercial citrus farms eroded its natural habitat A solitary bee species that hadn’t been seen since 2016 was rediscovered The blue calamintha bee was rediscovered in Florida by university researchers The bee had seen its natural … Read more
‘Extra-terrestrial equivalent of the Rhine’: First evidence of a major RIVER on Mars is discovered in 3.7 billion-years-old sedimentary rocks preserved in exposed cliff-faces Astronomers studied a 650ft cliff face in a crater on the surface of Mars It had marks which revealed a river flowed there around 3.7billion years ago It is unknown how … Read more
One in five of the world’s large marine animals could go extinct in the next 100 years, according to a new study. Megafauna are most at-risk from climate change and 18 per cent of the oceans’ largest species could be lost forever by the year 2120, UK scientists say This could rise to 40 per … Read more