I hope you’ll read and disseminate Jim Gorman’s story on the new Science paper pointing to a potential ecological catastrophe in North America should a potent chytrid fungus that attacks salamanders arrive on these shores. Leer más.





FOR the past 25 years we have watched helplessly as a wide range of amphibians around the world have died from a pathogenic fungus, known as Bd (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Now, yet another fungal contagion appears to have been unleashed. This one is spreading among salamanders in parts of Europe and threatens devastation. Leer más.
This website is dedicated to the frogs of East Malaysia (Borneo) and their larval forms. It covers more than 100 species, each with an easy to access page, biological information, color image of adult, and many of them with color images of their larval forms. Leer más.
A new species of legless amphibian resembling a giant earthworm or a snake has been discovered in a remote but threatened area of Cambodian rainforest. Leer más.
Molly Bletz wasn’t lost, exactly, but she could no longer see the lights from anyone else’s headlamp shining through the Madagascan rainforest. She switched off her own for a better look. The inky darkness was filled with the chirps, trills, and clicks of the frogs she was there to collect, but at the moment, Bletz couldn’t detect her own research partners. Leer más.