Venomous snakes, freshwater fish among legally traded species most likely to become invasive in US

Mongabay
May 19, 2025, 12:24 pm186 ptsTrendingTop
Although a superpower, the U.S. is under constant invasion — we’re not talking humans here but meek-looking plants and animals that have caused ecological havoc. Take, for instance, the tiny, nocturnal coqui frogs (Eleutherodactylus coqui) in Hawai‘i that arrived from Puerto Rico in the 1980s and are now…

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Venomous snakes, freshwater fish among legally traded species most likely to become invasive in US

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