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Maybe There's a Good Reason This Creepy Frog Is Dead
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
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Last week at a conference in Washington, scientists from Australia reported on their attempt to bring back a weird frog, the Southern gastric brooding frog, that went extinct about a quarter century ago...A frog so weird no one would agree to meet it
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Science In Mind
Burlington :: VT :: USA | 3 months ago
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It sounds, at first, like a plot twist from a zany movie about a mad scientist: What if an eye were transplanted onto a tadpole's tail? Would the frog-in-the-making be merely a laboratory freaka kind of Mr. Potato Head of science? Or would the
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Rescue frogs in breeding success
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Rare tropical frogs rescued from a killer fungus in the Caribbean have produced a bumper brood in the UK. The two female mountain chicken frogs responsible for the 76 new additions are part of an attempt to rescue the species from extinction. All 12
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In praise of … Hyloscirtus princecharlesi | Editorial
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | 11 months ago
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In praise of Hyloscirtus princecharlesi The tree frog named after Prince Charles has much in common with its namesake not least that it's endangered Editorial A tree frog first discovered four years ago in the cloud forests of Ecuador has much in
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Rare frog named after Prince Charles
São Paulo :: Brazil | 11 months ago
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In fairytales when a frog is kissed it turns into a prince, but the Prince of Wales is now a frog. Ecuadorian stream frog has been named Hyloscirtus princecharlesi in honour of the royal's environmental campaigning over the years. The brown-coloured
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It's OK, the little ones have to leave home some time. And if they don't, we'll croak
Sydney :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Story continues below These eggs started life at Melbourne Zoo's $75,000 amphibian centre, a purpose-built climate-controlled facility which is playing a key role in the captive breeding program in Victoria and New South Wales. And although they will
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New program fights to save alpine frog Frog
Brisbane :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Almost one thousand endangered Corroboree frog eggs will be deposited in the Kosciuszko National Park this month. It follows a 47 egg drop-off in 2010 and another 244 in 2011 as part of a program run jointly by Taronga Zoo, Melbourne Zoo and
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Deadly fungus causes frogs to die of thirst - even when they're in the water
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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26 April 2012 A deadly fungus is rapidly killing off frogs around the globe by making them died of thirst...It leads to them suffering severe levels of dehydration then ultimately a heart attack. The disease has already slashed the number of yellow-
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Endangered frog re-discovered in Queensland
Sydney :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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AN endangered frog species that has not been seen in 40 years in some areas has been discovered in an newly expanded section of a southeast Queensland national park. Environment Minister Vicky Darling said Fleay's barred frog, a large brown burrowing
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Spotted tree frogs return to national park
Sydney :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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The DSE is hoping the release of 260 captive-bred frogs will re-establish the population. Glen Johnson, a DSE biodiversity officer, says the frogs will be monitored closely once released. "We'll do some monitoring prior to the winter and importantly
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