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Honduras: How to Rescue These Adorable Tree Frogs
2016-04-07 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: How to Rescue These Adorable Tree Frogs A new effort hopes to save endemic frogs in a Honduras cloud forest. The Cusuco spike-thumb frog (Plectrohyla dasypus) is one of several endangered species from the cloud forests of Honduras that scientists hope to save from extinction. High in the misty mountains of Honduras, the world looks primeval, with glistening pine trees draped in moss and leafy bromeliads. This is ideal habitat for tree frogs, and some of the species hiding in the foliage...
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'Fire frogs' and eel-like amphibians: The Field Museum's Brazilian fossil discovery
2015-11-05 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Two hundred and seventy-eight million years ago, the world was a different place. Not only were the landmasses merged into the supercontinent of Pangaea, but the land was home to ancient animals unlike anything alive today. But until now, very little information was available about what animals were present in the southern tropics. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Field Museum and colleagues from around the world describe several new amphibia…
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Natural Bacteria Helps Frogs Fight Deadly Skin Disease, Say Researchers
2015-10-11 05:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: When we get the sniffles our first instinct is to go to the pharmacy, find the right medicine and wash it down with hot soup and tea. Well, animals also have to protect themselves from infectious disease--and it seems that frogs don't have to look much farther than the skin on their own backs, according to researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). One of those potential threats is chytridiomycosis--a fungal disease that has rapidly spread across the...
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AUSTROROLL HSR For Moveable Frogs
2015-07-30 17:23:00| Railway Technology
The patented Austroroll frog roller (HSR) is a rolling device for frogs with spring-action point for high-speed points.
Project Frog's Kit-of-Parts Approach Allows Better Design By Avoiding Trucking Limits
2014-09-09 22:33:02| ENR.com: Headline News
Project Frog has a kit-of-parts building system that avoids the limitations of trucking and allows better design.
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