Turtle SHELL-FIE! WAVE hello! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Tracking sea creatures in the ocean can help us conserve endangered species. Enter Jessica Harvey-Carroll and team from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. They wanted to better understand sea turtle migration. Using time depth recorders,
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Tech can help endangered animals? RHI-NOT! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Rhinos are at risk of extinction! Could in vitro fertilization, or IVF, save the day?? Enter Thomas Hildebrandt and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research. They collected unfertilized eggs from rhinos
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Science is saving animals with… Snapchat? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Studying wild animals in their natural habitat can be tough. Some animals only show up once in a while. Others only come out at night. How can scientists keep
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Pandas! Black, white…and loaded with green? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. As of 2016, giant pandas are no longer an endangered species! Conservation efforts are clearly paying off. But maintaining panda sanctuaries costs China two to three hundred million dollars a year. Is it
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