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Disease-ravaged species makes unlikely comeback after yearslong recovery efforts: 'It's mind-blowing'
Yellow-legged frogs were once the most common amphibian in the high Sierra Nevada, but a fungal disease wiped them out from ...
Yellow-legged frogs make a comeback in Sierra-Nevada lakes after facing near-extinction
Non-native fish and the amphibian chytrid fungus nearly wiped out the yellow-legged frogs in the lakes of the High Sierra at ...
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Frog Populations Once Decimated by Disease Mount a Major Comeback
Aremote lakeshore deep inside Yosemite National Park teems with life: coyotes, snakes, birds, tadpoles, frogs. The frogs are ...
Smithsonian Magazine10d
Endangered Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frogs Are Making a Comeback
Scientists are celebrating the recovery of the species in Yosemite National Park, where they were decimated by the ...
RealClearScience19d
Frogs Start to Fight Back Against Highly Lethal Fungus
Frogs were disappearing in the wild, and no one could explain why. It was “a scary time,” recalls Australian veterinary scientist Lee Berger, who in the 1990s was one of the first to identify the ...
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Frogs Of Chernobyl Adapted To Survive High Radiation. Now, They Don’t Need To
They sampled frog populations in Chernobyl covering the entire gradient of radioactive contamination present in the area, collecting more than 200 male frogs. The absence of humans definitively ...
Wall Street Journal24d
‘Whiskey Fungus’ Is Dividing a Maine Resort Town—and Rankling Alcohol Giants
At a town meeting last year, Beth Downs held up photos from Tennessee and Kentucky, showing stop signs and trees covered in an ugly black mold called whiskey fungus.
Newsweek26d
CDC Warning Over Genital Fungus 'Emerging' in New York City
A fungus that causes genital infections has seen a spike in cases in New York City, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. The fungus, named Trichophyton mentagrophytes ...
Popular Science28d
That’s not blood, it’s a fungus oozing excess juice
Learn more › Bleeding tooth fungus looks like a ghoulish forest crime scene. This type of mushroom called Hydnellum peckii also goes by “devil’s tooth fungus” or the much more pleasant ...
Los Angeles Times28d
A deadly fungus that has killed millions of bats may have arrived in Southern California
Wildlife officials confirmed the presence in California of a bat-killing fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Millions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome. California ...
Smithsonian Magazine28d
Scientists Unearth the Oldest Tadpole Fossil Ever Found, and It’s a 161-Million-Year-Old ‘Giant’
More surprisingly, the amphibian fossil turned out to be 161 million years old, breaking the record for the oldest known tadpole by about 20 million years. The oldest recorded fossils of adult ...
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Invasive deadly bat fungus found around the Sacramento region
INFORMATION AT THIS TIME. WELL, AN INVASIVE FUNGUS THAT IS DEADLY TO BATS HAS NOW BEEN FOUND ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO REGION. THE FUNGUS HAS BEEN KNOWN TO WIPE OUT MILLIONS OF BATS IN NORTH AMERICA.