Many people are blissfully unaware that the world's frogs and amphibians are fighting their own deadly pandemic. In fact, this fungal disease—chytridiomycosis, or chytrid for short—is the worst ...

Frogs in Australia's oldest national park have higher rates of a deadly fungus when exposed to wastewater from a coalmine compared to unexposed waterways, a study suggests. The study, published in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no wonder, then, that this frog is doing everything it can to evade the boomslang. Native to Sub-Saharan Africa, boomslangs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To test how skin-associated bacterial communities can protect tropical frog species against disease, the research team conducted a ...

The last known time that someone saw bright yellow frogs bespeckled with black dots in Panama’s wilderness was in 2009. These ...

A frog’s skin is an ecosystem of its own, inhabited by communities of bacteria. New experiments suggest those microbes may help decide whether some frogs survive a dangerous fungal infection. The ...

Learn more about the interesting history of African clawed frogs with health and science, and how they became a harmful invasive species that easily took over waterways. Cannibal frogs with ...

A study found higher amounts of chytrid fungus in a frog species exposed to coalmine wastewater compared to nearby unexposed sites. The mine company said any causal link between altered water ...