Around the world, frogs are in peril.
Threatened by pollution and habitat loss, changing climates and
epidemic disease, the outlook for many species is dire—with
conservationists locked in a fatal race to uncover the key to frog
survival.
Still, every year,
new species are discovered and frogs long thought to be extinct
are found again.
Many, like this
isolated toad found in the mountains of Ecuador early in 2010,
are completely unlike any scientists have seen before.
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Image credit: Paul Hamilton / RAEI
By David DeFranza
on September 13, 2010