Tag: "extinction"

Rediscovering Extinct Plants

Rediscovering Extinct Plants

This week, QUEST’s Science on the SPOT video will feature the Franciscan manzanita, a plant thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in San Francisco’s Presidio in 2009.

 
Jennifer Skene

Post on Jan 12, 2011 by

Newt Migration

Newt Migration

The newts are on the move again. Each fall, after the rains start, the newts of Berkeley’s Tilden Park start migrating from the woods to waters of Wildcat Creek, where they mate and lay their eggs. South Park Drive, popular with cyclists and Sunday drivers, crosses their migratory path. Each year from November 1 to April 1 the road is closed to cars, to prevent the newts from getting squished. (How did the newt cross the road? Not by being run over, that’s for sure.)

 
Jennifer Skene

Post on Nov 01, 2010 by

Mammoth Resurrection

Mammoth Resurrection

I had always thought that bringing back an extinct animal like the mammoth was impossible using today's techniques. I may have been wrong.

 
Dr. Barry Starr

Post on Nov 10, 2008 by