The critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog is endemic to southwestern Colombia, where negotiators are meeting for the COP16 biodiversity summit Minden Pictures/Alamy The 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD COP16 for short, starts in Cali, Colombia, this week. The summit will discuss a slate of essential actions needed … Read more
Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, went extinct in 1936 Colossal Biosciences The genome of the extinct thylacine has been nearly completely sequenced, de-extinction company Colossal has announced. It says the genome is more than 99.9 per cent complete, with just 45 gaps that will soon be closed – but it has provided no evidence to back … Read more
A little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) with white-nose syndrome, which has ravaged bat populations across the US piemags/FWL / Alamy Stock Photo The decline of bats in the US due to the spread of a fungal disease reduced farmers’ earnings and led to an additional 1300 deaths in children under 1 year old, a study … Read more