Predating dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab has roamed the earth for 445 million years, surviving five mass extinctions and three ice ages, but overfishing and habitat loss pose the greatest challenge yet to the survival of Long Island Sound’s “living fossils.” A new state ban on horseshoe crab harvests aims to turn the keystone species’ declining numbers around. On Wednesday, state leaders and .
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The owners of a Suffield dog quarantined for four years since fatally mauling a 95-year-old woman are again trying to prevent it from being euthanized.
The recent case of a bear cub in Litchfield is drawing attention to a little-known policy in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).