Apex

Florida solves invasive python problem by transforming apex predators into A-list leather goods

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Florida solves invasive python problem by transforming apex predators into A-list leather goods

Shopping will now save the planet. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week that the state is taking an uncharacteristically classy approach to tackling one of its most notorious ecological threats — the invasive Burmese python — by literally turning the problem into luxury fashion. The Sunshine State is renewing its efforts to remove the … Read more

See the ‘bloodthirsty’ apex predators that roamed Earth millions of years before the dinosaurs

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See the ‘bloodthirsty’ apex predators that roamed Earth millions of years before the dinosaurs

These carnivores were classic — well before Jurassic. A new archeological study has uncovered further evidence of the apex predators said to have “dominated” the Earth 40 million years ahead of the dinosaurs, “as the biggest and most bloodthirsty meat eater” of that era. A nearly complete skull of the Pampaphoneus biccai, estimated to be … Read more