Contact: Nan Broadbent
nbroadbe@sfsu.edu
415-338-1665
San Francisco State University

Signs of a Sixth Mass Extinction?

Caption: Dead southern mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) killed by the chytrid fungus. Sixty Lake Basin, Kings Canyon National Park, California USA.

Credit: Photo by V. Vredenburg (August 2006), San Francisco State University.

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