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The most deadly kind of poison-dart frog contains enough poison to kill 6 people.


Devastating diversity


Devastating diversity
New forms of the Dutch elm fungus, which is carried by beetles who burrow beneath the bark of elm trees, are combining and are making it more difficult to combat the disease. The original fungus spread from Europe to North America and Central Asia in the 1920's and 30's. Now, the North American form and the European form have met in Central Europe. Not knowing how this new form of the Dutch elm fungus will develop makes breeding disease-resistant elms very difficult.
21 AUGUST 1999, P. 17
New Scientist
21 AUGUST 1999, P. 17

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