Giant Caribbean Mountain Chicken Frog On The Brink Of Extinction

2023-10-16 09:00 PM by Jessica Irvine

Urgent action is needed to save one of the world’s largest frogs from one of the world’s most devastating wildlife diseases as the latest survey reveals just 21 individuals remain in the wild © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee A Critically Endangered Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax). (Credit: Copyright by Ben …

Caribbean Parrots Are Remnants Of A Millennial Scale Extinction

2023-09-28 03:23 AM by Jessica Irvine

A new study combines fossil and archaeological records with DNA samples to trace the history of Amazona parrots in the Caribbean from the Pleistocene through the Holocene © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two … [+] …