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Haunting song pays tribute to Toughie, the frog whose extinction went unnoticed

Liz Kimbrough 10 Apr 2024

Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?

Mongabay.com 20 May 2020
...probably a Natal dwarf puddle frog in the Gambia. Image by Thomas Brown via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA-2.0)

The frog that wasn’t there: Survey shines a light on Uganda’s amphibians

Fredrick Mugira 11 Apr 2020
The reed frog (Hyperolius molleri) is endemic to the island of São Tomé off the coast of Central Africa and was one of the species sampled in the study. Photo by Andrew Stanbridge

Rapid genetic test traces spread of fungus that kills frogs, reveals new strain in Southeast Asia

Jonathan Wosen 25 Nov 2019

Deadly fungal disease has devastated more than 500 amphibian species

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2019
Romeo the Sehuenca water frog. Photo by Robin Moore, Global Wildlife Conservation.

Romeo finally found his Juliet, and an endangered frog has new prospects for survival

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

Habitat loss, pigs, disease: U.S. salamanders face a ‘tough situation’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jan 2019

As a pandemic looms, researchers rush to test salamander vulnerability

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2018

Disappearing salamanders: New research aims to solve a decades-old mystery

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Dec 2018

‘Snot otters’ threatened by disease and stress

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2018

Essential ubiquity: How one tiny salamander species has a huge impact

Emily Clark 21 Dec 2018

‘Death by a thousand holes’: Scientists race to avert a salamander crisis

Benji Jones 19 Dec 2018

Super-spreaders: How the curious life of a newt could ignite a pandemic

Rachel Fritts 13 Dec 2018

Will trade bans stop a deadly salamander plague from invading the US?

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2018

Frogs coping with fatal fungus in Panamanian forest, study finds

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

On the hunt for a silent salamander-killer

Benji Jones 13 Sep 2018

Global frog pandemic may become even deadlier as strains combine

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2018

Scientists find ‘ground zero’ of deadly frog pandemic

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 May 2018

Frogs may be ‘fighting back’ against deadly pandemic

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Mar 2018

For Leap Day, 35 pictures of frogs

Rhett A. Butler 29 Feb 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

Success! Biologists may have found a way to eliminate amphibian-killing fungus in the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2015

Poisonous amphibians may be more likely to go extinct

Erin E.A. Ross 23 Nov 2015
Male of the recently rediscovered Azuay Stubfoot-Toad (Atelopus bomolochos) foraging on moss.

Good news: Stunning ‘extinct’ toad rises again in Ecuador (photos)

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015

Madagascar’s frog haven: rich, underexplored, threatened

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Mar 2015

Scientists rediscover Critically Endangered streamside frog in Costa Rica

Victor Montoro 26 Dec 2014

The Search for Lost Frogs: one of conservation’s most exciting expeditions comes to life in new book

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

Amphibian pandemic may have hit Madagascar, hundreds of species at risk of infection

Elizabeth Devitt 11 Apr 2014

287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian park sets world record (photos)

Rhett A. Butler 28 Jan 2014

Strange mouth-brooding frog driven to extinction by disease

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2013

Thought-to-be-extinct ‘halloween’ frog rediscovered in Costa Rica

Rhett A. Butler 4 Nov 2013

Newly discovered chytrid fungus devastates salamander populations

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 19 Sep 2013

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