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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Articles

The Hunt For Earth’s Most Mysterious Creatures Is Turning Up Extraordinary Results

DNA sequencing is now so advanced that taxonomists — those who classify life — can barcode thousands of specimens at one time. It’s this approach that’s helping illuminate dark taxa: Researchers can collect scores of specimens from the field, sequence portions of their DNA, and then upload those bits of code to an existing database to see if they match known species. If not, they might represent something new.

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Videos

Polar Bears Have Settled in An Abandoned Weather Station

Novosibirsk photographer Vadim Makhorov showed a family of polar bears who have taken over the houses of an abandoned weather station on Koluchin Island in the Chukchi Sea. The footage was captured using a drone, which the predators tried to catch with their paws and teeth.

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Rangeland Restoration: Subsoil Contour Plowing at Circle Ranch, in far-West Texas

Subsoil contour plowing is an excellent way to increase water absorption in the desert grasslands of far-West Texas and Southern New Mexico. The effectiveness of the practice is shown in these before-and-after comparisons.

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