Hunger Strike in Opposition to the Frog
Sunday, August 31, 2008
In religious and political battlegrounds....
"Crucified Frog Stays - Despite Papal Protest"
...but let's get back to the things that really matter: species survival, for example (ours included):
"Frog Deaths are a Harbinger of Sixth Mass Extinction on Earth"
"Crucified Frog Stays - Despite Papal Protest"
...but let's get back to the things that really matter: species survival, for example (ours included):
"Frog Deaths are a Harbinger of Sixth Mass Extinction on Earth"
"Frogs and other amphibians lived through several mass extinctions on Earth over the past 250 million years, surviving the dinosaur wipeout and the most recent Ice Age. But now, say scientists this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, all that is changing. Amphibians are going extinct in such huge numbers that we've entered nothing short of a new mass extinction event. It's the sixth such event in known Earth history."Many thanks to David B. Wake, quoted in the "Frog Deaths" article referenced above, for his research and contribution to the earth sciences.
