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Nov 2, 2020 · Species are becoming extinct quicker nowadays than ever before. Biodiversity is vital to the health and livelihoods of the planet's eight billion people. Earth’s fate and the devastation of the natural world were recently put under the microscope with the release of Sir David Attenborough’s Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet .
Dec 11, 2017 · In 2003 a mountain goat kid was born in Spain, and lived for just 10 minutes. Despite its very brief life, this small mammal represented a major scientific breakthrough. It was a breed of mountain goat known as bucardo, or the Pyrenean ibex, which was once found in northern Spain. The last ever bucardo, called Celia, died in the year 2000.
Jan 24, 2024 · De Winton's golden mole was feared extinct but has been observed in the wild. While the number of threatened species is increasing, there are a few bright spots and stories of several coming back from the brink of disappearance. Environmental risks will characterize the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report ...
Aug 10, 2022 · 5. ‘Rat kangaroos’ return to Australia. In Australia, an endangered mammal called the brush-tailed bettong, or woylie, has been re-introduced after disappearing more than 100 years ago. Also known as ‘ rat kangaroos,’ bettongs are about the size of a rabbit and move around with a springy hop.
Feb 21, 2022 · Ocean plastic pollution is set to grow fourfold by 2050, says a new report. And there may be 50 times more microplastics in the sea by 2100. Plastic pollution is pushing some species to the brink of extinction. But technological innovation and combined global action can help avert disaster. The level of microplastics in our oceans is set to ...
Feb 10, 2023 · With extinct species, we insert edited DNA into a nucleus of a reproducing cell which allows us to resurrect species in the form of hybrids between living and extinct organisms. The process of building high-quality reference genomes , biobanking cells, genome engineering, and SCNT holds boundless potential and is the science we are using at Colossal.
Nov 6, 2015 · Possibly the most famous Lazarus species, the coelacanth (pronounced seel-a-canth), was thought to have gone extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, but in 1938 one was discovered off the coast of South Africa. Coelacanths are closely-related to lungfish and are thought to be an evolutionary transitional species between fish and tetrapods (four-legged creatures).
Aug 27, 2020 · 1. Elephant shrew. The last time anyone recorded a sighting of the Somali elephant shrew was almost 50 years ago, after which, it was assumed to have become extinct. Then, in August 2020, a team of researchers and academics reported that these tiny, odd-looking creatures were alive and well.
Mar 7, 2019 · After looking at more than 96,500 species, IUCN estimates more than 26,500 are threatened with extinction, including 40% of amphibians and 25% of mammals. The “possibly extinct” list includes Indonesia’s Aru flying fox – a species of megabat with no recorded sightings since 1992 – and the Christmas Island shrew, last spotted in 1985.
May 4, 2015 · Assessing how many species have gone extinct due to human impacts is notoriously hard. Previously, I reported on a study published in Nature that estimated that over the past 500 years, 13% of all species had been lost as a consequence of human behaviour. Urban’s study uses a similar approach in that he conducts a systematic review of ...
