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A 32.2-centimetre 'colossogiant' isopod collected in Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat unrecognized in a German university collection for ~40 years — until a student and a curator revealed it as a species new to science, complete with a 15-million-year family history.
Dozens of Chelonia mydas hatchlings entered the Andaman Sea at Sirinat National Park on June 14, part of a community Big Cleaning Day timed just before World Sea Turtle Day — and a reminder of what this quiet northern stretch of Phuket still protects.
On a June night in Phang Nga, a leatherback sea turtle nicknamed Mae Namo laid her sixth nest of the 2026 season — 123 eggs guarded by park rangers and relocated to a hatchery. For Thailand's rarest nesting sea turtle, six clutches from one female is a quiet signal of recovery.
On June 8, 2026, three thousand mangrove seedlings went into the tidal mud at Takua Pa — a small act with consequences that ripple outward across the entire Phang Nga coastline.
A tide pool is far more alive than it looks. Hermit crabs, chitons, and anemones survive a daily stress test that would kill most ocean animals — and their diversity is an early-warning signal for the entire Andaman reef.
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