In 1996, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that, according to information available at that time, Israel's Hula painted frog was an extinct species.
This was the first time when an amphibian was declared extinct by the IUCN.
Fast forward several years, and the IUCN finds its... |
5 June 2013
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Whether you know it or not, you like amphibians. In fact, you're a huge fan of these creatures. Why? Because these creatures help keep insect population under control and make sure swarms of mosquitoes and whatnots don't pay you daily visits, that's why. As much as you like frogs, toads and lizards, ... |
27 May 2013
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Not many people know this, but quite a lot of amphibian species have gone extinct throughout the past few decades.
More precisely, studies concerning biodiversity argue that, in just 30 years, about 120 kinds of amphibians have fallen off the map, not to mention that 41% of those that made it up until nowadays are ... |
24 July 2012
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Just recently, scientists decided to investigate how human-driven events impact on various amphibian species throughout the world, especially seeing how the past few years brought about a considerable decline in their population.
It was argued that climate change, ever-increasing levels of pollution, the destructio... |
19 July 2012
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University of Oregon professor of geological sciences Gregory J. Retallack says that the conclusions of his latest studies on how fish began turning into tetrapods (four-legged animals) indicate a picture different from commonly-accepted theories on how life moved out of the water.
The idea that most evolutionary b... |
28 December 2011
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Researchers are currently investigating an interesting lead that may help explain why 40 percent of the world's amphibian species declined over the past 30 years alone. Some believe that a fungal infection may have been responsible for that, and a study to test this hypothesis is currently ongoing.In order to ke... |
3 May 2011
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Biologists have known for a long time that moths in the genus Hyposmocom, based in Hawaii, were a bit different from other insects of their kind. One of the species in this genus, for example, produces caterpillars that have taken a liking in attacking and eating tree snails. In addition to being a lot larger than th... |
23 March 2010
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Amphibians are not renowned for their ability to defend themselves, other than the shedding of tail bit. Some of them are quite poor at it, in fact, and naturally end up being eaten by predators. But one species had the courage of saying “enough” and the best way it could figure of protecting itself was t... |
21 August 2009
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According to a new report released on Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, some 869 species of plants and animals have gone extinct in the past 500 years, with an additional 17,000 more now at risk of disappearing as well. Additionally, the paper underlines the fact that the world's go... |
2 July 2009
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For the past few years, biologists believed that the increasing number of mutations they observed in salamanders and frogs was a direct result of inbreeding, caused by the reduction of the natural habitats of the amphibians. However, recent scientific data seem to suggest that this is not the case, and that man-made ... |
4 November 2008
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