Can hungry microbes save the world’s imperiled frogs?

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By Amelia UrryMay 29, 2014, 7:04 am23 pts
ShutterstockA Panamanian golden frog, the stoic mascot of mass extinction, is actually still alive in captive breeding programs. Humans have shuffled and squelched so many different species that on the death-and-destruction scale, we rank up there with asteroids. One of our latest victims? Amphibians, which…

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