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ScienceDaily: Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that amphibians that use toxins to protect themselves against predators are at a higher risk of extinction than those who use other types of defence, which poses a challenge to a long-held evolutionary hypothesis. As part of nature's evolutionary arms race, animals have evolved a whole host of different defence mechanisms, including chemical defences, such as poisons or irritants, camouflage, warning colouration and mimicry. The way mechanisms......
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Poisonous frogs more likely to face extinction, study finds
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 20th, 2015
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