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Saving the World’s Last 14 Loa Water Frogs
The entire population of one of Chile’s rarest frogs once lived quite happily—whatever happiness might look like for a frog—in a single stream. But years of illegal water extraction for nearby copper mining choked and dessicated the waterway, squeezing the Loa water frogs that managed to survive into a puddle roughly the size of a …
‘Friendly’ bacteria could help save frogs from disease
Image copyright Getty Images Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could protect them against a deadly virus, according to research. The work by scientists at the University of Exeter and Zoological Society of London could help save species such as the European common frog from being wiped out by a disease. Amphibians have been …