Has Darwin's Frog Croaked Its Last?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 21:10
in Biology & Nature
The deadly amphibian disease chytridiomycosis has caused the extinction of Darwin's frogs, according to scientists from the Zoological Society of Londonand Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Conservation scientists found evidence of amphibian chytridiomycosis causing mortality in the the northern Rhinoderma rufum endemic to Chile, and linked this with both the population decline of the southern Rhinoderma darwinii from Chile and Argentina, including from undisturbed ecosystems. read more