Tearing Apart DNA of the Earth: Mass Die Off of Frogs Leaves Snakes Starving to Death

Snakes have been ”starving” to death after a mass die-off of forest frogs deprived them of their unusual meal, scientists have discovered.

More than 500 frog species in central America have declined in numbers, including 90 that have gone extinct since 1998, biologists said. In 2004, a fungal pathogen outbreak caused a mass die-off.

In the following years, numbers of snakes and the variety of species plummeted, found researchers from the University of Maryland and Michigan State University.

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