LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A deadly fungal disease of amphibians may bring the extinction of Darwin's frogs, an iconic South American species, British and Chilean researchers say.
Scientists from the Zoological Society of London and Universidad Andres Bello in Chile say the disease, chytridiomycosis, is believed to be contributing to the plummeting population and disappearance from most of their habitat of the two Dawin's species, the northern Rhinoderma rufum endemic to Chile and the southern Rhinoderma darwinii from Chile and Argentina.