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May 10 News Duration 6:16 There are already 40 different types of ticks in Canada, with more species expected to migrate north. For The National, CBC’s Tom Murphy goes to the Canadian Tick Research and Innovation Centre (CTRIC) to find out more about the evolving risk. News Source link

A spider with extra-long genitalia (for a good reason); a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey’s body parts; and a tiny, mountain-dwelling opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025. A new recent study reports that about 16,000 new species are “discovered” each year, a rate …

Millions of years ago, a pony-sized, hornless rhino wandered through the woods and munched on leaves in what is now northern Nunavut, making it the northern-most rhino ever found. A new study published on Tuesday identifies it as a new species, and offers an intriguing explanation for how it got …

A member of the world’s second-largest species of fish was spotted off the North Shore of P.E.I. by a group of people returning from a deep-sea fishing trip this past week. Don Gauthier and his family spotted the basking shark just about a kilometre and half offshore near New London Bay …

The Blanchard’s Cricket Frog is so tiny it can fit on your thumb, and the distinctive call for which it is named would make it easy to hear — if it hadn’t recently been declared locally extinct in its wetland habitat of southwestern Ontario.  Thomas Hossie, assistant professor of biology who studies amphibians at the province’s Trent University, described …

Scientists from the University of Calgary have discovered a new dinosaur specimen that they say appears to be the “missing link” in the evolution of tyrannosaurs. The specimen was originally discovered in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert over 50 years ago in the 1970s, but its significance wasn’t recognized until Darla Zelenitsky, …

Two new species of crayfish have been identified in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and researchers say both species are vulnerable to extinction. One of those crayfish is called the “misfortunate crayfish,” found primarily in central Oregon, according to biologist Eric Larson.  The other, the Okanagan crayfish, is found in, …

To put a disease that’s ravaging ecosystems around the world into context, biologist Roland Knapp describes it like COVID-19 — if COVID-19 had a 99 per cent mortality rate.  “If we can imagine that, we can get a sense of what the impact is on amphibians,” says Knapp, a research biologist …

“You see those white pinkish dots in front of us?” asked Xhemal Xherri, peering across a lagoon along the southern coast of Albania, across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. “Dalmatian pelicans,” said Xherri. “Around 20 of them.” The area is a vital breeding and feeding ground for southeastern Europe’s distinctive …

As It Happens6:30First ferret babies born from a clone bring new hope for their species Two feisty ferret babies in Virginia are being hailed as a symbol of hope for the future of their species. Scientists say Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and …