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A 14-year-old in Virginia dug a pond for a school project in 2017. Nine years later, every animal in it arrived on its own

Nobody released a single animal. The toads came within weeks, which tells you what had been missing from the yard all along. In the summer of 2017, the backyard of a rural home in Virginia’s ...
Phys.org

How wildlife in ponds has evolved to survive frozen water—and how you can help more animals stay alive

When filled with ice-skaters or a clumsy Bambi on a Christmas card, a frozen pond is a merry sight. But spare a thought for the living things trapped below. The aerial wizardry of dragonflies and ...
ecoportal.net

Scientists covered sea cucumber ponds with solar panels to create an “artificial eclipse,” and the younger animals ended their summer hibernation 12 days earlier

A sea cucumber cannot swim away from heat. It sits on the bottom of a shallow pond, and in a Chinese summer that bottom can pass 90 degrees Fahrenheit. So it stops. It empties its gut, shrinks, and ...
Indiatimes

Florida's alligators create deep-water ponds during dry seasons; these predators help other animals survive

Seasonal drops in water levels trouble the Everglades in Florida, drying out the shallow marshes little by little. As the wetlands shrink there is less room and less places for fish and other aquatic ...
The Conversation

How wildlife in ponds has evolved to survive frozen water – and how you can help more animals stay alive

When filled with ice-skaters or a clumsy Bambi on a Christmas card, a frozen pond is a merry sight. But spare a thought for the living things trapped below. The aerial wizardry of dragonflies and ...