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Today, many of Hawaii's remaining endemic species of plants and animals are considered endangered. Hawaii has more endangered species and has lost a higher percentage of its endemic species than any other U.S. state. [7] The endemic plant Brighamia now requires hand pollination because its natural pollinator is presumed to be extinct. [8]
The Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is a 200-acre (0.8 km 2) arboretum and botanical garden managed by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa located at the upper end of Mānoa Valley in Hawaiʻi. Much of the Arboretum's botanical collection consists of an artificial lowland tropical rainforest with numerous trails and small water features.
The American lion (Panthera atrox (/ ˈ p æ n θ ər ə ˈ æ t r ɒ k s /), with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.
Overall the state has seen very little paleontological research within its borders. According to author Marian Murray, prior to the 1974 publication of the second edition to her book Hunting for Fossils most of the little research on Hawaii's fossils record had already gone out of print. She recommended that would-be amateur fossil hunters in ...
Aug. 1—The mountain lion found in a Rio Rancho neighborhood last week has been returned to a remote area in the northwestern part of the state, according to the Department of Game and Fish. This ...
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Nodipecten subnodosus is a species of scallop known by the common name giant lion's paw. It is native to Pacific and Gulf of California coasts of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, southward to the western coast of Peru. The giant lion's paw scallop releases both eggs and sperm during each annual spawn.
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