<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/87782512-b114-4579-8d47-97cc3244c696/C8FF7578-1254-465E-80E7-6FEB03259AAB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070216-10322400-bc-us-amphibian.xml" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070216-10322400-bc-us-amphibian.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencedaily.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070216-10322400-bc-us-amphibian.xml"><P class="first">Scientists from around the world are hoping to save the Earth's amphibians from extinction with an "Amphibian Ark" project.</p> <P>"This is a mass extinction never before seen in human history," Joseph Mendelson, curator of herpetology at Zoo Atlanta, told The Los Angeles Times. "From a purely cold-hearted scientific perspective, it's a fascinating thing to document when we're still guessing what happened to dinosaurs."</p> <P>The biggest threat facing the amphibians, mostly frogs, is the chytrid fungus. In the past 10 years, 170 of 6,000 amphibian species have become extinct. Now, 2,000 species are threatened, the scientists said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070216-10322400-bc-us-amphibian.xml">"Bringing (frogs) into an amphibian ark is really the last option," Kevin Buley, director of herpetology at Chester Zoo in England and chairman of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria's amphibian ark told the Times</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C8FF7578-1254-465E-80E7-6FEB03259AAB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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