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 North I... (Link)
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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 observe ... (Link)
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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 living bod... (Link)
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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 private ... (Link)
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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, it lie... (Link)
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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 indust... (Link)
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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 contine... (Link)
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