Signs of a Sixth Mass Extinction? (IMAGE)

San Francisco State University

Signs of a Sixth Mass Extinction?

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

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

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