21st December 2024

Is Solenodon going extinct?

5th May 2018 Wildlife 0

Photo: JOEL SARTORE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK

Owing to a potential of disappearance ofHispaniola Solenodon from the globe, scientists are trying to preserve the genome to secure its existence.

A study recently published in Biorxiv, an open access journal, highly the potential of big data to save such creature.

More reading: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/03/164574

More interesting facts at: https://www.popsci.com/hispaniola-solenodon-genome-venomous-butt-nipples?con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&lnk=TA&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5aed254904d3013cda7aecd5&utm_medium=&utm_source=#page-3

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