Museum Frogs Tie Chytrid Fungus to a 1979 Brazil Die-Off, Two Decades Before Science Named the Pathogen
Nature World News | 09.11.2026 06:43
Frogs collected decades ago and stored in jars at the Smithsonian have helped solve an old ecological mystery. Researchers now report that the amphibian chytrid fungus was spreading through Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station at the same time frogs there crashed between 1979 and 1982, years before scientists had any name for the disease.
