Tag: chytrid fungus

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...

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....

Some Central American frog species appear to be recovering from 40-year declines caused largely by fungal disease, according to new research. The reason, the research suggests, is better skin defenses...

When Collen Kamoroff was sampling the montane lake waters of eastern California, she was trying to ensure they no longer contained invasive fish. Instead, she found what she believes could...

When David Blackburn went to the Central African country of Cameroon as a graduate student in 2004 and then again in 2006, he saw spectacular views of mountains and lakes...

A potential cure for the deadly disease wiping out vast populations of amphibians all came down to special two-liter coke bottles filled with water and tadpoles from an island off...

A combination of habitat destruction, deadly diseases and climate change may spell doom for amphibians in many parts of the world, according to new research. “There’s pretty good agreement that...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week the release of a final recovery plan for a rare toad whose population has been hit hard by a deadly fungal...