A killer fungus that suffocates its victims by covering their skin is spreading across Australia, wiping out frog species. It sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is not fiction. The chytrid ...
More than 2000 eggs of the Southern Corroboree frog have been released in the high alpine areas of Kosciuszko National Park, by keepers from Taronga Zoo and Zoos Victoria in a bid to save the frog ...
“Frogs with alpaca genes could soon be hopping around Australia.” The story was how genetic fiddling in the laboratory to introduce certain alpaca genes into frogs could confer immunity against the ...
The wildfires in Australia have burned through more than 38,000 square miles, killing hundreds of millions of animals in the path of the blazes and devastating significant swaths of crucial habitat ...
Biologists consider the health of frogs to be indicative of the health of the biosphere as a whole. Frogs have permeable skin that easily absorbs toxins. They require specific aquatic and terrestrial ...
Researchers may have finally solved the mystery of the fungal pathogen that has been devastating amphibian populations worldwide. The fungus, known as Batrachonchytrium dendrobatisdis (Bd), appears to ...
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