At left, a golden frog, Atelopus varius, photographed during an outbreak of chytrid fungus in Panama in 2004. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
State of the Wild is also a call to action in an era when 50 percent of the nearly 6,000 known frog species could go extinct in the next 50 years thanks to a combination of chytrid fungus disease, habitat destruction and global warming. (scientificamerican.com)
New research from the University of South Florida published in the journal Nature reveals that amphibians can acquire behavioral or immunological resistance to a deadly chytrid fungus implicated in global amphibian population declines. (sciencedaily.com)