Species Profile: Western Painted Turtle
The Western Painted Turtle is one of a number of painted turtle species in the Chrysemys genus. They are so-called because of their distinctive red and yellow colouration patterns. These turtles...
View ArticleThe Decline of the Adder
Populations of Britain’s only venomous snake, the adder, are declining at an alarming rate. Urbanisation of the countryside has led to habitats becoming smaller and cut off from one another. As a...
View ArticleDe-Extinction: The future of conservation
Tasmanian Tiger – Candidate species for de-extinction. A TEDx conference in Washington last month brought together a diverse selection of scientists who argued that ‘de-extinction’ (bringing a species...
View ArticleTop 5: De-extinction Candidates
Following on from my earlier feature: De-extinction – The future of conservation, here’s a quick guide to 5 of the species scientists are talking about bringing back from the dead. As you will see, the...
View ArticleMy PhD – An Interview with Eloise O’Donoghue
Eloise O’Donoghue is a PhD student based in the Krachler Lab at the Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham. She is a scholar of the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training...
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