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First Case of White-Nose Fungus Found in Ontario Bat Colony
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Cher
- 796 days ago - ottawacitizen.com
Canada's first reported case of a disease that kills bats by the thousands has been discovered at a hibernation site in the Bancroft-Minden area
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Fungus Killing High Altitude Toads - Low Altitude Toads Survive
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Cher
- 851 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Midwife toads that live in the mountains are highly likely to die from chytridiomycosis, a serious fungal infection, whereas their infected relatives in the lowlands are not, according to new research published in Ecology Letters
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Fossil Dung Fungus Helps Disprove 'Rapid Extinction' of Mammoths
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Cher
- 879 days ago - ecoworldly.com
When you're a paleontologist seeking to solve an ancient mystery-in this case, the demise of Ice Age 'megafauna' like Woolly Mammoths and Giant Sloths-you sometimes have to get down and dirty. Specifically, you have to collect and analyze fossilized
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New Species of Fungus Found on the New Forest
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Cher
- 998 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The New Forest has confounded conservationists once again by yielding up a species hitherto unknown to science. But even as the new type of 'tooth fungus' was being discovered on the Forestry Commission estate, near Lyndhurst, its future was already
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