Photo: Amphibian Extinctions: Is Global Warming Off the Hook?

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A cinnamon-bellied reed frog hangs onto a twig in Gabon, Africa.

Global warming may not be causing the spread of a chytrid fungus that's killing off many species of frog, a December 2008 study said.

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