Habitat loss is generally considered to be a negative process, causing population isolation, edge effects, and extinctions. However, a new study suggests that habitat degradation can sometimes have a positive effect. Last week, a paper in PNAS showed that habitat loss may actually suppress the spread of a deadly disease in some amphibians
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A captive male Darwin’s frog coughed up ten babies Thursday at a zoo in Santiago, Chile, a milestone in a project to save the amphibians from extinction.
The vulnerable species is one of two members of the only genus on Earth that rears its young inside of its vocal sac, a job taken on by the [...]
There’s a strange twist this week to the long-running story of the disappearing frogs.
As regular readers of these pages will know, frogs and their amphibian cousins, the salamanders and caecilians,
Amphibians that inhabit natural environments are more likely to be infected with the fatal Bd fungus that has devastated frog and salamander populations worldwide than those living in habitats disturbed by human development.
Bursting with eggs, a pregnant frog with see-through skin is one of five “lost”amphibian species recently rediscovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
First described in 1950, Hyperolius leucotaenius was recently found on the banks of the Elila River in southeastern DRC.
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With the help of the Field Biology Club, biologist Michael Starkey, of the conservation group, Save the Frogs, lectured on the importance of saving the world’s frog species in the Hinde Auditorium Tuesday night.
There’s a crisis among the world’s amphibians — about 40 percent of amphibian species have dwindled in numbers in just three decades. Now, museum jars stuffed full of amphibians may help scientists decide whether this wave of extinctions was caused by a fungal infection.
BRISBANE, Australia, Feb. 28 (UPI) — Australian researchers say they are looking at a range of engineering ideas to protect endangered amphibians from the effects of climate change.
Amphibians are one of the species having the hardest time dealing with climate change, so scientists are looking into ways to make their lives a little easier.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – A team from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, lead by President Bob Chastain, is back in Colorado after spending nine days in the jungles of Panama as part of a global effort to save amphibian species on the verge of extinction due to fatal chytrid fungus.
The Search for Lost Frogs, a global expedition to uncover amphibian species not seen for decades, has uncovered one of the expedition’s most sought-after species: the Pescado stubfoot toad (Atelopus balios).
What is making that sound in your backyard? The Santa Fe College chapter of FrogWatch USA is looking for fellow amphibian lovers to come out for a training session at the Teaching Zoo where you will learn to identify frogs and toads by learning their breeding calls and sounds. The training is open to everyone, including [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — A team from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is heading back to the jungles of Panama to save amphibian species on the verge of extinction due to fatal chytrid fungus.
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Already famous as an Amphibian hotspot with some 106 frog species, Sri Lanka now has two more tiny shrub frog species that don’t have a tadpole stage. Malaka Rodrigo talks to the young scientist Madhava Meegaskumbura who discovered them.
They are looking for a mate. But some of these protected critters are more likely to croak than find love after toadily heartless thieves sabotaged their crossing.
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