Frogs fighting fungus

[MelissaSR]

Horrible fungus that has killed so many frogs in both the wild and captivity, this fungus popped its ugly head up some years ago. Scientists are now finding wild frogs are fighting the fungus and are becoming resistant to it.

These Frogs Are Evolving to Survive a Murderous Fungus That Tries to Stop Their Hearts

Decades after chrytrid fungus began its deadly rampage through the world's frog populations, a community of tropical frogs has managed to adapt.

www.livescience.com

 

[Michael]

This is such great news. The demise of our amphibian populations because of pollution and human impacts to their ranges are bad enough... thank you for sharing! So neat!