![]() In her spare time, you may find her riding her motorcycle, reading YA novels, hiking, or playing video games. ![]() Since then she has become a writer for hire, freelancing for various websites. After graduating from Ithaca College with a degree in Feature Writing, she snagged a job at where she had the opportunity to review all the latest consumer gadgets. Natalie has been writing professionally for about 6 years. Photo credit: LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images “We’ve got to hope that something will happen, and we’ll be able to piece it all together, and it will all be as it once was, which now that I say it out loud sounds kind of stupid.” “We’ve got hope that somehow it’s all going to come together,” herpetologist Paul Crump told Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction. The species who survive this blight will live out their lives in laboratories. (Not all of them may have made it into the cooking pot.) ![]() ![]() Spanish Edition by Tim Halliday, Kraig Adler, et al. ![]() Then there’s the “frog leg soup” hypothesis, where North American frogs where introduced to Europe, Asia, and South America for human consumption. The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World. (African clawed frogs were used as a pregnancy test back in the 1950s and ’60s). There’s the “Out of Africa” idea, which suggests the shipment of African clawed frogs, which are widely infected but unaffected by chytrid, may have introduced the fungus to many new environments around the globe. Why it has appeared in these distant parts of the world is uncertain, but scientists have two hypotheses. ![]()
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