One Fungus Has Caused More Extinctions Than Any Other Infectious Disease. Some Toads Have Found a Way to Survive It : ScienceAlert

Across the world, entire species of frogs and toads are being wiped out by a relentless fungal infection, commonly known as the chytrid fungus.

For most amphibians, the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a death sentence.

It’s caused more global species extinction events than any other…