Hurricane was expected to wipe out rare island species — but now it’s making comeback
Years of phosphate mining, invasive species and roaring hurricanes have left Sombrero Island relatively barren, causing ...
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Critically Endangered Sombrero Lizard Makes Epic Comeback From 100 To 1,600 Individuals In 6 Years
However, back in 2018, it looked as though that biodiversity was about to disappear. A combination of historical mining, a ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
This Once-Rare Lizard Bounced Back From the Brink of Extinction After ‘Painstaking’ Restoration Efforts in the Caribbean
In 2018, fewer than 100 Sombrero ground lizards remained on Sombrero Island—but now, more than 1,600 of the critically ...
Near-extinct Caribbean reptile makes epic comeback
The Sombrero ground lizard, endemic to a tiny Caribbean island near Anguilla, is a critically endangered reptile. In 2018, it ...
Population of nearly extinct lizard grows 16X in only six years
A nearly-extinct Caribbean reptile is showing signs of a comeback following years of conservation efforts. The population of ...
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News on conservation efforts
The Sombrero ground lizard, endemic to a tiny Caribbean island near Anguilla, is a critically endangered reptile. In 2018, it was estimated that fewer than 100 individuals of the species were left ...
The Sun News16d
Armored prehistoric creature — with ‘unusual’ jaws — discovered as new species. See it
Take procolophonids, for example. These small, lizard-like animals belong to a group called parareptiles, and while technically related to reptiles and eventually birds, they are more like distant ...
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A galaxy named for its resemblance to a sombrero looks distinctly different in new image
(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, revealing a perspective that looks quite different from the ...
Smithsonian Magazine21d
See the Sombrero Galaxy Like Never Before, as the James Webb Telescope Captures It in Unprecedented Detail
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Looking at the Hubble Space Telescope’s famous image of the Sombrero Galaxy, it’s pretty clear why said galaxy was named after the Mexican broad-brimmed hat. Now ...