For a quarter of a century, Panamanian golden frogs were not seen in the wild. These brightly colored little amphibians had been wiped out by a fungal disease. Thankfully, experts at the Smithsonian’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The native golden frog population was nearly wiped out by a fungal disease that arrived in the late 1980s. While Bd isn’t a ...

The Panamanian golden frog was made extinct in the wild due to a deadly fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. A coalition of expert agencies successfully bred the frogs in captivity. In 2025, ...