{"id":615131,"date":"2019-05-06T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9670955246abc019c07e7b0d5a223007"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:00:27","slug":"even-more-amphibians-are-endangered-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=615131","title":{"rendered":"Even more amphibians are endangered than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least a quarter of the world&#8217;s approximately 8,000 known species of amphibian are recognized as threatened and at risk of extinction. But due to a lack of data on many amphibian species, only about 44 percent of amphibians have up-to-date assessments on their risk of extinction, compared to nearly 100 percent of both birds and mammals. Now, researchers reporting May 6 in the journal Current Biology have used known ecological, geographical, and evolutionary attributes of these data-deficient species to model their extinction risk\u2014and their assessment suggests that at least another 1,000 species are threatened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least a quarter of the world&#8217;s approximately 8,000 known species of amphibian are recognized as threatened and at risk of extinction. But due to a lack of data on many amphibian species, only about 44 percent of amphibians have up-to-date assessment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615132,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615131\/revisions\/615132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}