Frogs on the Verge of a Major Extinction
Friday, August 15, 2008 - 14:42
in Biology & Nature
Lots of amphibians (a third to a half of all species) are dying, and their deaths are the breaking-edge of what many scientists are calling the first mass extinction since the dinosaurs checked out 65 million years ago, researchers say in a new paper published online in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. read more
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