Flash forward 60 million years and frog species are going extinct, supposedly because of a slight rise in temperatures. Something is not making sense here.
I knowe- good breakdown- Asteroids? Atomic Bombs? Nuclear weapons? Meh- no biggie- a .03 degree rise in temps? The super froggies give up and die
There certainly are fewer frogs today than 20 or 30 years ago. My mom’s farm pond used to be filled with the chatter of dozens. Now, it’s silent.
Color me extremely skeptical. A lot [MOST] of the theories put forth as established fact, seem to have inconsistencies that really don't add up. Then again, maybe today's frogs are a bunch of snowflakes.
Frogs, as long as they’re moist and cool they, don’t have a high energy demand and can go a long time inactive.
Also, as to the frenzy of them declining, there was a huge hand wringing fest over them disappearing along with other amphibians in the high Sierra a while back and it was all globalwarmingglobalwarmingglobalwarming until someone realized it was trout being stocked into alpine lakes that had never had them, by aircraft...