Friday Frog Blog: From Pennsylvania to the Chesapeake to the Egg

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The guardrails protecting democracy may have buckled, but they are not broken. Autocratic forces are ascendant in America, but the story isn’t fully written. Truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against Trump’s unrestrained exercise of power. He rails against the press as the “enemy of the people,” because he hates the scrutiny that comes from fearless investigative reporting. Our nonprofit newsroom is built for the chaos ahead. Please stand with us.

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Mudraker and his posse of fish are all alive and well in our tank and their community continues to thrive.

Here’s your week in frog:

Heavily endangered cricket frogs in Pennsylvania (they’re really tiny and cute) have been discovered in a new location.
Pesticides in the Chesapeake Bay are possibly linked to the decline of frogs in the region.
Frog eggs turn out to be sophisticated globs of matter.