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Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years
More than 2,000 species worldwide are considered lost. Could finding them avert extinctions?
AUSTIN, Texas — The room looked like something inside a haunted house. Rows and rows of metal storage shelves held thousands of glass jars filled with snakes and lizards and frogs, each labeled with a catalog number, like a library of the dead.
Read more at Vox.com: Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years
More than 2,000 species worldwide are considered lost. Could finding them avert extinctions?
AUSTIN, Texas — The room looked like something inside a haunted house. Rows and rows of metal storage shelves held thousands of glass jars filled with snakes and lizards and frogs, each labeled with a catalog number, like a library of the dead.
Read more at Vox.com: Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years