Caribbean

Caribbean parrots, considered endemic, are actually remnants of a millennia-long extinction event

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Caribbean parrots, considered endemic, are actually remnants of a millennia-long extinction event

  The authors pieced together the long history of the parrot family Amazona, focusing on two species, the Cuban (A. leucocephala) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis) parrots, for which they were able to obtain ancient DNA samples. Credit: Kristen Grace in a new study published in PNAS, researchers have isolated the first ancient DNA from Caribbean … Read more

Off the reef and on the menu: Caribbean fishermen wage war on invasive lionfish

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Off the reef and on the menu: Caribbean fishermen wage war on invasive lionfish

  BSimple, dramatically colored and with poisonous spikes, barbed wire not only looks dangerous, but has proven to be a serious threat to all other fish in the Caribbean. William Álvarez, who lives in Chichiriviche de la Costa Bay on Venezuela’s central Caribbean coast, has made it his mission to take care of the threat. … Read more