Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LostSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LostSpecies</span></a> are those that have not been observed in the wild for over 10 years, despite searches to find them. Lost <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/tetrapod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tetrapod</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/species" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>species</span></a> (four-limbed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vertebrate</span></a> animals including <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amphibians</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammals</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reptiles</span></a>) are a global phenomenon—there are more than 800 of them, and they are broadly distributed worldwide.<br>But, we are losing tetrapod species at a faster rate than we are rediscovering them, researchers say <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-tetrapod-species-faster-rediscovering.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-01-tetrapod</span><span class="invisible">-species-faster-rediscovering.html</span></a></p>