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The Rocky Mountain News
(http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/sep/25/fertilizers-deformities-linked/)
Fertilizers, Deformities linked
CU study shows frogs with defects hit by parasites
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
BOULDER - Fertilizers from farms and lawns are responsible for frog deformities cropping up in ponds and lakes across North America, a new study shows.
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Six-legged frog found in New Zealand (3/6/2007)
(http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/Research/Six-legged_frog_found_in_New_Zealand.asp)
A New Zealand scientist has offered a schoolboy $100 for his six-legged frog. Brett Wilson, a seven year old boy from New Zealand, found a green tree frog with six legs on a friend's farm.
Biologist, Dr. Nick Ling, with the Waikato University wants to buy the frog for $100 to determine why it has an extra pair of legs. Dr. Ling believes the frog's deformities could be the result of pollution, or a glitch in nature. Dr. Ling also says that "The chemically-induced deformities almost always involve hind limbs"
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