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Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

21 May 2018

Researchers spent four years looking for Chinese giant salamanders and only found 24 – and that’s not even the worst bit of news
A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

10 May 2018

The world’s amphibians are dying in swathes because of the lethal chytrid fungus, and it seems the epidemic had its origins on the Korean peninsula

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