Frogs have been under siege around the world from a fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, known for short as "Bd, " which has been known to be weakening and killing amphibians since the late 1990s though much about it remains under scientific study, Voyles said.
"We are just starting to understand the ripple down effects and the repercussions of losing amphibians, " said Jamie Voyles, a biologist at New Mexico Tech in Albuquerque and one of the principal investigators of Project Atelopus, an effort to study and protect frogs of an endangered genus in Panama.