Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Golden Toad
There was a period of time when the best bet science for the extinction of these little frogs was... wait for it, global warming. They had a tiny range of habitat in Costa Rica. So, is the best bet science still global warming. No, it almost certainly was a chytrid fungal infection brought on by a drought caused by the perfectly normal Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
Still sorry to see them go.
Labels: Global Warming; Golden Toad
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:29 AM 
