Half of Guadeloupe's snakes and lizards went extinct after European colonization

A new study uses fossil and archaeological archives to demonstrate that colonial era extinctions in Guadeloupe occurred on a much more massive scale than previously thought, with more than 50% of the islands' squamate species disappearing in the centuries after 1492.

source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210519163650.htm