I love that there are always good things happening somewhere in the world! Like there's the worldwide frog chytrid fungal issue, which has been destroying frog populations for years. But! *This year* some scientists found out frog saunas can help! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/f...#science
Providing frogs with sun-warmed bricks inside mini-greenhouses can help them recover from chytrid and make them more resilient against the disease in the future, a new study finds
Did you get to the anti-chytrid sauna?
Chytridiomycosis is one of the leading causes of amphibian extinction worldwide. But what is a chytrid? What do they do to frogs? Where did they come from? What can be done? Watch the video to learn more! youtu.be/ab3_H0c_jHw
YouTube video by Zoognosis with Joy!
Read up on the Aime Lab and #Purdue#Herbaria#MycoMonday#MycologyMonday#fungi#rustfungi#aquaticfungi#chytrids#chytrid#Bd#Batrachochytriumag.purdue.edu/news/2024/09...
Mushrooms, whether eaten, used medicinally or in art, are deeply intertwined with global cultures. But they actually constitute a small piece of the fungal world. Mushrooms are the fruiting body of fu...
If you see this, post a monster. This was Chytrid, a monster from my webcomic Black Mudpuppy. He was a mutating sentient fungus with Hitler’s brain.
Today I booked three flight tickets to Borneo (Sabah) in Nov, to start a pilot study on rainforest restoration and interactions with chytrid fungus and amphibians and mosquitoes and malaria in a blissful mix. It will be my premiere as a professional rainforest researcher. www.slu.se/en/departmen...
One third of the world's tropical rainforests have been lost. Half of what remains is degraded. This project was launched in 1998 to show whether it is possible to rehabilitate severely degraded tropi...
🌊🔬🍄🏊 Cool to see the chytrid fungus I named after my mother, Clyda Rae Simms, continue to surprise us 15 years after publication! "Evolutionarily diverse fungal zoospores show contrasting swimming patterns specific to ultrastructure" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Zoosporic fungi, also called chytrids, produce single-celled motile spores with flagellar swimming tails (zoospores).1,2 These fungi are key component…
@AFP: VIDEO: Endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell frogs could be saved from extinction by a sauna. The small greenhouse protects the amphibians from a deadly chytrid fungus which burrows into their skin and kills them. #AFPVertical https://t.co/s4YljRGSsA
today I learned the main reason the frog population of the world has taken a devastating plunge in recent decades is because we spread a horrific frog disease (chytrid) shipping African clawed frogs everywhere in the mid-1900s so we could inject them with human pee to test for pregnancy
@AFP: VIDEO: Hundreds of endangered Green and Golden Bell frogs huddle inside a sauna, protected from Sydney's winter chill. The greenhouse may offer a pleasant warmth, but it also protects the frogs from a deadly fungus called chytrid that would otherwise drive them to extinction. https://t.co/fzlT