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The practice began in 1920s Western variety shows and spread to city speakeasies, but it faces increased scrutiny today—and pressure from conservation groups to make races safer for the reptiles. In ...

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 19, 2026. Corporate CEOs, media pundits, Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, world ...

It started with the mysterious discovery of more than a hundred turtles, some with their shells smashed, others dismembered, all of them dead. It ended with a potential warning for the future. It was ...

How to back up SQLite databases the right way (not by copying them!) ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — A 170-pound loggerhead turtle nicknamed “Molly” was back home in the warm waters of the Florida Keys on Tuesday after a successful surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor inches ...

Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...

Manual Hegman gauge testing is straightforward in principle: material is drawn down across the gauge, and the point where larger particles appear indicates the dispersion level. However, manual gauge ...

The Food and Drug Administration aims to let only safe and effective drugs reach the US market — but its turtle-speed approval process may be killing more patients than it protects. FDA regulations ...