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Posted By Fi5herman 5 months ago in NewsScientists resolve one of the most controversial environmental issues of the past decade: the curious case of the missing frogs' legs.
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Newperson5 months ago
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If tadpoles are attacked when they are very young, they can often regenerate their leg completely, but this ability diminishes as they grow older.
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I think this in itself is very cool. If only people could do this.
Thanks for sharing this cool article. -
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FrankHummel4 months, 4 weeks ago
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An interesting story --- but it does NOT, in and of itself, necessarily "exonerate" the "producers" of pollution and/or other efffects (e.g. global warming). To "achieve" THAT, it would be necessary to somehow show that there is not some sort of INDIRECT linkage.
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It is perhaps conceivable that some sort of "environmental" factor(s) is/are responsible for disturbing the balance of things and "favoring" the nematodes at the "expense" of the frogs! And if one is inclined to just dismiss such thinking "out of hand", it would be instructive to consider some OTHER sorts of "indirect influence" examples.
Specifically, I am thinking of an example over in another Kingdom of the biological realm: that of the plants. Climate change, by relatively favoring the survival of certain BEETLES, "inadvertently" enables the "success" of FUNGI that those beetles carry, which then infest and destroy WHOLE FORESTS OF MAGNIFICENT CONIFER TREES. Anybody ever observe the massive DIE-OFF of "our" national heritage out in Colorado that results from the "pine-bark beetle"?
There will be MANY such "secondary" effects of ecological profligacy besides merely the "spectacular", obvious ones like wiping out penguins and polar bears and rising sea levels flooding out people who live along seacoasts. -
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