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 ...

It’s a completely different lake," he said. The story of the demise of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog goes back to the days of the California gold rush, which began in 1848. Suddenly tens ...

Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to the infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations—and they're developing methods to fight the pathogen ...

Now, thanks to the consistent and focused efforts of researchers and conservationists to save, then reintroduce, mountain yellow-legged frogs to this and numerous other lakes in Yosemite, their ...

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 ...

In that time, remarkably, the frogs have developed some resistance to the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), allowing them to persist in its presence. The paper is published in the ...

The paper is now published in the journal Nature Communications. "Going back to some of these lakes where frogs are now recovering, and just sitting and watching, reminds you of what has been ...

It’s a completely different lake," he said. The story of the demise of the Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged frog goes back to the days of the California gold rush, which began in 1848. Suddenly tens ...