![]() How they did it - The scientists measured the impact of temperature and precipitation on senescence and aging in four toad and frog species residing in North America and Europe. ![]() In other words: amphibians are aging faster than ever before in warmer environments, it’s disrupting their numbers, and humans are to blame. “Accelerated aging is a potential threat for amphibians because it removes from the populations old/large individuals that strongly contributed to breeding,” Cayuela tells Inverse. He says the research ties changes in frog aging to climate change. Hugo Cayuela is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Claude Bernard in France. A study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines the link between rising global temperatures and senescence (mortality related to aging) in frogs and toads in Europe and North America. ![]() Scientists are becoming keenly aware that animals’ bodies are being affected in peculiar ways due to climate change. The role human-induced climate change plays in the decline of frog species just took a strange turn. ![]()
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