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What do you feel in life for a topic today? We can go a little sad. Let's go a little sad. Oh, no, you're feeling a little sad

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I'm not feeling a little sad. I'm feeling like here and something

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Those are two distinctly different things. I don't have feeling sad

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I have feel bad in which I think I just loaded one up here. Let's take a look. Oh good. Are you sure this is bad?

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Okay, I'm gonna do a share of two

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So the first one is gonna be from the Smithsonian magazine July 23rd

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2021 see on a topic of something that we just updated for who knows how many episodes away it was

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2021 two years ago. Anyhow, that's three years ago Chelsea

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Alex Fox says no, he titles this article

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This butterfly is the first US insect to be wiped out by humans. Oh, it's 2024. Oh, that is sad

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Yeah, you brought us here Taylor genetic test using museum specimens suggest that the

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Exerces blue was a distinct species and that it disappeared in 1941

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So maybe that could make you feel a bit better because it wasn't us humans

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Okay, also it really sounds like they really had to cut like

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Minooshas to get down to the fact that it's its own species. What the butterfly? Yeah, no, it seemed like they really were like

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Torn on whether or not some species so they had to like

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The exerces blue butterfly has the dubious distinction of being the first insect species in the United States to have been driven off the

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existential cliff of extinction by humans last one having been collected at San Francisco's Lobos Creek in

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1941 us them 100 years after the species was first described by biologists

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There's no question that human activity specifically decades of livestock grazing and urban development that

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denuded and bulldozed the dunes caused the exerces blue to vanish

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But in the years after its disappearance a debate emerged concerning whether this June butterfly was a distinct species or just an

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Isolated population of the wide-ranging silvery blue butterfly. Well, this took a turn. Yeah, that's what I thought it was gonna do

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Take a turn. Yeah to the point that maybe it's not actually a species. Maybe it's just that it was you did call that

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Yeah, yeah, it's kind of like saying to was went extinct when you can't have Chihuahua's go extinct because that would mean dogs went extinct

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Because they're not their own distinct species. Does that make sense? Oh, yeah, I get it. Yeah

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Yeah, like a part of dogs. Yes, because weirdly if we only had a Newfoundlander or a great Dane and a to Wawa left

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They could breed to produce dogs again like one of each left. Yeah, well, I guess technically if you only have one of each left

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No, but um, yeah, sure. Okay, anyhow now a group of researchers says they've settled the debate using genetic

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techniques and a

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93 year old museum specimen

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Confirming once and for all that the exerces blue was its own distinct species

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Reports like Jake Bueller for science news dead. I guess I don't know said's not in there

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But it doesn't make sense otherwise the research published this week in the journal

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Biology letters also confirms that the exerces was indeed the first insect that Americans erased from the planet despite the permanence of

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Extinction the team was able to collect a tissue sample for their genetic analysis from a pinned specimen in the drawers of the natural history

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Collections maintained by the Field Museum in Chicago specifically

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They removed a tiny pinch of abdomen from the exerces blue that was captured in

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1928 according to a statement it goes to show how critically important it is not only to collect specimens

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But to safeguard the man does this seem boring to you a little bit

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Maybe that's why we're sad

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The director and curator of the Cornell University insect collection tells Sabrina Imbler of the New York Times

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We can't imagine the ways they will be used 100 years from now

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I'm assuming they're talking about the specimens after sequencing the museum specimen DNA. Okay, we get the point

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We extincted a butterfly, but maybe we didn't maybe we didn't but at any event

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I think we can all agree that our destruction of ecosystems is a bad thing overall. Oh, it is and you know what?

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I was gonna read this other article to you, but it's behind a paywall

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So I'm just gonna read you the title copy the address and then go to the address

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12ft.io. So this one's from the Times and it is titled

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salmon declared endangered species for the first time and this is by Jeremy Watson

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Saturday December 6 2023

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Oh, this one's fairly recent for me 6 p.m. And then it says the Sunday time

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I'm not sure we need to know the time when it's over a year old. Yeah, we do

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Okay, you put it there must be important. It's important to the salmon. Okay

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So this one says without intervention the survival of wild Atlantic salmon is at risk

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Experts say wild Atlantic salmon the king of fish in Scotland's rivers has been declared an endangered species for the first time by an

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International conservation body British populations have plummeted by up to half between 2006 and 2020

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accelerating a trend that has found three generations according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature

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IUCN in Scotland where more than a hundred and seventy rivers once boasted healthy populations

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Numbers declined by 58% with climate change affecting salmon at all stages of their migratory life cycle

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populations in the smaller number of salmon rivers in England and Wales also suffered steep declines the

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IUCN have identified a number of key pressures

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Faced by Atlantic salmon including climate change poor water quality dams and barriers

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Exploitation at sea and invasive non-native BC such as Pacific pink salmon. I would also at probably out in there

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I'm just going out on a limb, but probably our fishing of salmon is probably a huge threat to it as well and

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Would it's not only that Chelsea? We've talked many a time about well, sorry by many a time

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I think I mean once about

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Vehicles impact on salmon if you don't for if you can't remember there's something in tires

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That is absolutely catastrophic for salmon that it wouldn't get some to rivers

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So let's just say the human threat as well is probably a huge one as why they're also

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And we kind of just have to assume that like plastic is probably doing something to them

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We we don't care enough to actually study it in anything because that would be bad for the economy

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But odds are salmon's probably impacted by plastic in some way. Yeah, so we get the feel of this article

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I think we can post the link in the notes

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It's behind a paywall. So we already told you how to get behind the paywall if we didn't edit that out. So

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Butterfly we

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Extincted it probably that's certain one but more butterflies exist. So we're confused on that one

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Might I just say I'm a little sad because you know when you go down a YouTube hole

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It's literally just you see an exciting title and you click on it and the videos just keep playing

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Yeah, I did that with like medieval cooking. Hey, I've looked it

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There's this guy that like cooks medieval cooking who has the hat. Does he have a hat?

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Really liked him

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He was cooking like what the Kings would eat at the Coliseum when they do their tiger face. Okay

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That's pretty cool. You find all these like super old recipes and makes them

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Yeah, there's a few of those guys this one was specifically looking like a peasants dinner and like it actually looked delicious

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It was like Kirby peas and

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Salmon because any hasn't could go down to the river and just get a salmon because they were plant-a-fine

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That sounds really nice. Yeah, it's kind of sad to see that like in our future apocalyptic age

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Those peasants are gonna be eating as oh, sorry, and it was multi-grain bread

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That was the other thing too because the white bread was just for the upper class

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Really? Who wants that shit anyway?

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Yeah, it's funny with the upper-class reserved for themselves yet like the slaves ate lobster and the peasants eat

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Yeah, well to be fair they were they were entirely coated in lead at the time so they weren't thinking right

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In any event, I don't know how to say it

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So just like take your 48 hours do your thing come back here

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Maybe probably don't ingest any lead-end or plastic. I know you can't avoid either

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But just don't intentionally intake either. So good luck. Bye. I'm in the clear. I think I