And check out, too, these amazing interactive cards made by Katty Huertas and Hailey Haymond describing other species that help us 5/5
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Read the full story here, as Melina Mara and I go around Panama talking to frog and mosquito researchers as well as everyday Panamanians who have had malaria 4/5
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The discovery is part of a new area of research in which ecologists and economists find hidden ways many plants and animals — including wolves, bats, birds and trees — underpin human well-being

They are learning that without saving nature, we can’t save ourselves 3/5

As a frog-killing fungus swept Central America, scientists saw a remarkable chain of events

With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria climbed 2/5

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New precise dating techniques of a century-old fossil site in New Mexico are opening a window into the years before the collision

The conclusion: Dinosaurs were flourishing, not foundering, right up until the end

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But other researchers are unswayed, saying DNA suggests a much more recent origin for us

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Now, finally, the crabs are catching a break

A key group that sets standards for drugmakers has officially OK'd a human-made alternative

But so far, only a handful of drugmakers have begun to adopt it

But bird lovers say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem

Birds bulk up on fatty crab eggs on the East Coast before migrating north

Knowing why they're wasting is key to breeding resistant starfish and restoring ecosystems. But not every scientist agrees the bacterium is behind the disease.

Even if it is, it will take a lot of work to bring them back (3/3)

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For more than a decade, scientists didn't know what was causing billions of sea stars to melt away from Alaska to Mexico

Now, they say they've finally found the culprit: a bacterial cousin of the pathogen behind cholera (2/3)