In this June 2013 photo provided by Nat Thoreau Wheelwright, dead wood frog tadpoles are displayed at a pond in Brunswick. Wheelwright, a Bowdoin College biology professor, determined that Ranavirus killed off more than 200,000 of the tadpoles during a 21-hour period, the largest die-off of amphibians ever recorded in academic literature, he said.

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