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March 8, 2026, 03:57 PM - 8 min read
In early 20th century American life, women might not have been able to vote or to serve on juries in most states, but in the ring, they commanded the audience’s attention riding bareback on horses, displaying strength and stamina, and performing gravity-defying acrobatic feats. Stark was acutely aware of the path she was paving. “I deliberately chose a field in which no other woman had specialised,” she wrote in her autobiography.
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March 1, 2026, 01:08 PM - 5 min read
After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers provided Punch with an orangutan plushie as a stand-in mother. Videos of the monkey clinging to the toy have gone viral worldwide. But Punch’s attachment to his inanimate companion is not just the subject of a heart-breaking video. He’s a reminder of the importance of emotional nourishment.
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February 6, 2026, 01:25 PM - 6 min read
Claims that de-extinction can reverse extinction are misleading. Genetic engineering can introduce lost traits from an extinct species into a closely related living species and restore lost ecological functions, but it can’t re-create the extinct species. Problems arise when companies present these limits cautiously within the scientific community but make stronger claims in public-facing communication.
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October 15, 2025, 03:41 PM - 6 min read
Wolves disappeared from Danish forests in 1813, when they were hunted to extinction – remembered only in stories and fairy tales. Then, in 2012, a lone male wolf crossed the border from Germany into Jutland, Denmark’s peninsula bordering Germany. More followed. By 2017, Denmark celebrated its first confirmed breeding pack in more than 200 years.
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October 5, 2025, 02:11 PM - 3 min read
Forest department teams have been deployed across affected areas to rescue and guide the animals back to safer forest zones. “We are working continuously to prevent harm to both animals and people,” said the official.
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