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Kiwi lands, Aussie wings: A story of Climate Change and flying ‘invaders’
Interview to our July 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Pascale Lubbe
New Zealand (Aotearoa), a remote island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean known for its striking natural beauty and remarkable biodiversity. Made up of two main islands, the No...
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Protecting the endangered Dugong through paleogenomics
Interview to our March 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Lydia Hildebrand Furness
At the beginning of the XVIII century, traveler and author Ernst Christoph Barchewitz was enjoying the view from his porch near the sea shore, when he suddenly came to obs...
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A Balancing Act Between Seeking the Unknown and Living With It
If you’d walked up to someone in the 14th century and told them, “Listen, friend, there are things we just can’t understand,” they probably would’ve shrugged, crossed themselves, and gone back to plowing dirt or something.
Mystery was part of the...
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Redefining the demise and extinction of the woolly mammoth
Interview to our November AaRC-TikTalk speaker Marianne Dehasque
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a greatly successful species characteristic of the Pleistocene megafauna in Eurasia, roaming around the whole northern part of the co...
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The mysteries of chicken domestication and its worldwide expansion
Interview to our November 2024 AaRC TikTalk speaker Ophélie Lebrasseur
The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is one of the main sources of animal protein consumed worldwide (1). Given its importance in the current human diet and food i...
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Sustainable ancestral fisheries across millennia
Interview to our January 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Jesse Morin
Vancouver is currently the major city across the Canadian Pacific coast, and the third biggest urban area in Canada after Toronto and Montreal. Located along the Burrard Peninsula, i...
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Achieving better techniques for DNA preservation and recovery
Interview to our February 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Alexander Salis
Natural History Museums around the world hold vast collections of plants and animals, seized, catalogued, preserved and stored in an attempt to capture a snapshot of their livin...
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Resolving the taxonomic puzzle of bush babies
Interview to our February 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Anna Penna
“When I reached England in the spring of 1862, I found myself surrounded by a room full of packing-cases, containing the collections that I had from time to time sent home for my pri...
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