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Blue Land Crabs Multiply Along NC's Crystal Coast, Baffling Wildlife
22+ hour, 19+ min ago (197+ words) The crabs are omnivores that mainly eat plants, fruits, and leaves, occasionally supplementing their diet with beetles and other insects, per the News & Observer's report. North Carolina's first confirmed sighting occurred in July 2023 along Bogue Sound near Emerald Isle, which…...
'Never going to barbecue our way out of this one': USDA official says Guam has up to 50K feral pigs
22+ hour, 1+ min ago (289+ words) The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s feral swine program on Guam said his agency captured a record 2,600 pigs in the last two years. But Chad Richardson said tens of thousands of pigs are still roaming the island, carrying diseases…...
Cat attacks taking a toll on Vancouver Island wildlife, rescue group warns
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (351+ words) A Vancouver Island wildlife rescue is urging cat owners to reconsider letting their pets roam freely outdoors, saying cat attacks are its leading human-influenced cause of admissions. “Some animals sustain only minor injuries, while many others suffer irreparable fractures and…...
Geneticists who sampled 243 boars and pigs around the Fukushima nuclear plant confirmed escaped farm pigs had bred into the wild boar herd, but the pig ancestry is erasing itself — hybrid sows inherit year-round breeding from domestic mothers, and faster generations dilute the pig genes faster
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (371+ words) A decade after Fukushima's evacuation, escaped farm pigs bred with wild boars—but nature is erasing the domestic legacy faster than anyone predicted. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit When the sirens emptied the towns around…...
Invasive green crabs are bad for the environment, so New Englanders are starting to eat more of them
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (852+ words) “Just about everyone hates them, and we’re trying to turn them into a premium seafood product,” said Masi, whose company, shell+claw, is the only one that commercially cultivates these crabs. Masi, a 45-year-old former marine science teacher, is part…...
Continued blue crab declines, mixed signals for other N.C. fisheries in 2025
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1283+ words) Fisheries regulators say commercial blue crab landings in North Carolina declined again in 2025 and surveys continued to find low juvenile abundance, while the latest monitoring produced less definitive signals for southern flounder, speckled trout and striped mullet. The findings are…...
Wild Animals in the City: How to Respond If You Encounter a Fox or a Bat
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (190+ words) life.liga.net When a fox appears in the middle of the city, the reaction is often the same: "What’s it doing here?", "Who brought it here?", "Take it somewhere in the woods." But every time, I think about something…...
The mysterious blue land crab is spreading in NC. How did it get here?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (785+ words) If you’ve spotted a blue land crab skittering across sand dunes on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast, or you do this holiday weekend, you might’ve jumped at the sight of its massive claw. Blue land crabs aren’t native to North Carolina,…...
Cascade Head Work Party & Volunteer Appreciation Celebration
1+ week, 1+ day ago (248+ words) The Nature Conservancy Matching Gift Fund: Make 2X the impact for nature today. Give Now. Volunteer with The Nature Conservancy Cascade Head Work Party & Volunteer Appreciation Celebration At this year’s final Cascade Head work party, we will remove invasive Himalayan blackberry…...