Researchers turn to museums to track down clues in mysterious amphibian declines
Monday, May 2, 2011 - 14:20
in Biology & Nature
There's a crisis among the world's amphibians -- about 40 percent of amphibian species have dwindled in numbers in just three decades. Now, museum jars stuffed full of amphibians may help scientists decide whether this wave of extinctions was caused by a fungal infection.