A deadly fungal disease has wiped out dozens of frog species worldwide. But new research on disease-resistant frogs in ...
Our purpose-built "frog saunas" allow amphibians to warm up in winter and bake off chytrid infections. You can even DIY and build a frog sauna for your own backyard with our step-by-step guide.
Toxins on poison dart frog skin mold the skin's microbial community, boosting species variety and potentially even feeding some daredevil bacteria.
The chytrid fungus began wreaking havoc in Dominica around 2002, according to researchers. The frog is also battling for survival on another Caribbean island to the north. "The disease got to ...
1 of 11 Far from civilization, mountain yellow-legged frogs high in California's Sierra Nevada are dying in droves. The culprit: amphibian chytrid fungus, which first appeared here in 2004 and has ...
As a leading importer of frog legs, the US has a responsibility to ensure that its trade is not spreading the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus among wild frog populations by introducing invasive frog ...
Discovered by Charles Darwin in the 1800s on a journey through Argentina and Chile, the aptly named Darwin's frog is one of the most unique amphibian species in the world. Unfortunately, the tiny ...
The frogs are an important part of the ecosystem ... Their population was decimated by a fungal disease known as amphibian chytrid fungus. Some of the populations were able to recover while ...
such as global warming and the presence of a pathogen discovered in the late 1990s known as amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Data from the last 130 years collected by ...
The US-based company is investing in Melbourne University’s scientists who are working to create a super-species of frogs that can withstand the effects of chytrid fungus. While most people ...