**A 50-Year-Old Mystery: Scientists Discover What May Have Killed Brazil’s Frogs**
By Smithsonian - Published on 20 October 2026
Museum specimens are helping scientists trace a deadly fungus linked to mysterious frog disappearances in Brazil nearly half a century ago. Frog species that escaped a wave of population declines in Brazil carried widespread infections with a deadly fungus. Yet museum specimens from the species that suffered the steepest losses showed no detectable infection. These [...]
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