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University of Alberta: Undergraduate student discovers threatened beetle is actually two separate subspecies

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An undergraduate research study has found that a threatened type of beetle found in Saskatchewan and Colorado is in fact made up of two genetically distinct subspecies. The discovery has important implications for conservation efforts for the insects, and shows that both populations of Gibson’s big sand tiger beetle are more threatened than previously thought. […]