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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/commuting/2012/02/01/gIQA5O0Z9Q_story.html
Deadly virus hits turtles, tadpoles in Montgomery County
By Katherine Shaver, Sunday, February 12, 8:38 PM
Maryland biologists study*ing box turtles rescued from the bulldozers on the Intercounty Connector construction site have made a grisly find: An alarming number of the tiny turtles later died, and biologists say their demise appears to be unrelated to the highway.
Worse yet, the cause of their death ? an animal disease called ranavirus taking root across the United States ? also is believed to have killed nearly every tadpole and young salamander in the study area in Montgomery County?s North Branch Stream Valley Park since spring 2010...
Deadly virus hits turtles, tadpoles in Montgomery County
By Katherine Shaver, Sunday, February 12, 8:38 PM
Maryland biologists study*ing box turtles rescued from the bulldozers on the Intercounty Connector construction site have made a grisly find: An alarming number of the tiny turtles later died, and biologists say their demise appears to be unrelated to the highway.
Worse yet, the cause of their death ? an animal disease called ranavirus taking root across the United States ? also is believed to have killed nearly every tadpole and young salamander in the study area in Montgomery County?s North Branch Stream Valley Park since spring 2010...