David Brown

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David M. Brown is a biologist and educator. He writes to get people of all ages interested and involved in biodiversity and nature conservation.

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Hot pink individual of Arota festae. Image courtesy of Benito Wainwrig

Researchers find ‘remarkable’ hot-pink insect in Panama rainforest

David Brown 13 Apr 2026

Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation

David Brown 7 Apr 2026

Eastern monarch butterfly populations increase in 2025, but challenges remain

David Brown 24 Mar 2026

From endangered to invasive: Rare ocelot spotted on Mexico’s Cozumel Island

David Brown 18 Mar 2026

Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian Papua

David Brown 17 Mar 2026

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing

David Brown 16 Mar 2026

Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows

David Brown 5 Mar 2026

Online ads reveal scale — and gaps — in amphibian pet trade into US

David Brown 27 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

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Pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) at Omsk, Russia in 2026. Image by Yaroslav Burmatov via INaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

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