Are frogs on the brink of extinction?
It’s a rare thing to witness the extinction of an entire class of animal. We weren’t around to see the dinosaurs disappear, and the dodo was just one species of bird — it’s not like all birds slowly disappeared. But according to many conservation scientists, that’s exactly what amphibians are facing: Frogs and others in the amphibia class are on their way out unless the conservation community takes immediate action. Amphibian Image Gallery Scientists believe the fungus may have begun spreading around the world in the 1940s, when African clawed frogs — one of the only species known to be immune to the effects of the fungus — were shipped around the world for use in medical research, specifically pregnancy testing. African clawed frogs lay eggs when they’re in
