Tag: fungal disease

Bureau of Land Management biologists have detected the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome on hibernating bats and cave walls in two eastern New Mexico caves. The detections are the first...

As humans continue to social distance to stop the spread of COVID-19, swarms of bats in Colorado haven’t taken the hint that gathering together could facilitate the spread of a...

An international study has found that a fungal disease among amphibians is responsible for the greatest loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease ever recorded. Researchers found the chytrid fungus...

A recent New York Times article chronicled biologists’ efforts to combat white-nose syndrome as it spreads toward bats in the West. The article followed researchers in an abandoned mine in...

For decades, the story of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae) has been a bleak one. Once abundant in lakes and ponds in and around Yosemite National Park, the...

After frog populations in Panama were decimated by a 2004 chytrid fungus outbreak, the species that survived have developed the ability to coexist with the fungus, according to recent research....

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome has turned up for the first time in South Dakota. The National Park Service reports that the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans was found on five...

The fungal pathogen behind the extinction of entire species of South American amphibians has been detected for the first time in endangered frogs and toads in India. In a study...

Site visits are critical to helping scientists learn more about species and their habitats.  The trips often take them into areas most people do not have a chance to explore,...

Young citizen scientists aged 4 to 16 have discovered that many frogs and toads on California’s northern coast are infected with the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Seventeen percent of...