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In some cases, another species like the North American Leopard Frog showed that males exposed to atrazine grew eggs in their testes.
We are losing species from the Earth faster than the dinosaurs disappeared, and leading that loss are amphibians.
There are nearly a million known insect species in the world, but most have one of just five common types of mouthparts.
Scientific classification, or taxonomy, is used to organize all living things into seven levels: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
They're not protected in Ireland; in fact, they have no legislative status in Ireland whatsoever, despite our importance for the species and also the historical context within which basking sharks reside.
If you look at the first line, really, you can see that all these different shark species are all quite similar.
But if you look at nucleotide diversity, which is more genetics that are passed on through the parents, you see that basking sharks, if you look at the first study, was order of magnitude less diverse even than other shark species.
So what it tells us, actually, is that there's actually a risk of extinction of this species because its population is so small.
Being able to tell the gender of a shark is very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through the sightings, because it is illegal to trade in these sharks.
They're absolutely critical ecosystems, they clean air, they clean water, they sequester large amounts of greenhouse gases, and they're home to a huge diversity of species.
In the boreal, they are also the home where almost 50 percent of the 800 bird species found in North America migrate north to breed and raise their young.
It impacts and fragments a larger part of the wilderness, where there is 90 percent reduction of key species, like woodland caribou and grizzly bears, and it consumes even more energy, more water, and produces at least as much greenhouse gas.
Incredible habitat for half the bird species you find in North America, migrating here.
And also the last refuge for the largest herd of wild bison, and also, of course, critical habitat for another whole range of other species.
But it too is being threatened by the massive amount of water being drawn from the Athabasca, which feeds these wetlands, and also the incredible toxic burden of the largest toxic unlined impoundments on the planet, which are leaching in to the food chain for all the species downstream.
Some of the greatest densities of some of the most iconic and threatened species on the planet.
And the limiting step here wasn't the unknown diversity of life, but rather the taxonomic specialists who can identify and catalog these species that became the limiting step.
They, in fact, are an endangered species themselves.
There are actually four to five new species described everyday for the oceans.
And what barcoding does is use a specific gene called CO1 that's consistent within a species, but varies among species.
And so what that means is we can unambiguously identify which species are which even if they look similar to each other, but may be biologically quite different.
They also found an endangered species sold as a common one.
And so what you can do with that is to plot the distribution of species and where they occur in the oceans.
And so they put this together, a list of all the species, where they're known to occur, and it really seemed like a very esoteric, scientific type of exercise.
Where do we find the most species of ocean life?
And what we find if we plot up the well-known species is this sort of a distribution.
Now while a lot of the species we discovered in the census are things that are small and hard to see, that certainly wasn't always the case.
Similarly this Golden V kelp collected in Alaska just below the low water mark is probably a new species.
And so there were new species that were found that live inside ice and help to support an ice-based food web.
And this particular species really captured the public's attention.
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