Frog named after Darwin croaks its last

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Yahoo News (USA) November 20th, 2013 05:00 PM: Frog named after Darwin croaks its last

A frog named after Charles Darwin has gone extinct because of a deadly amphibian skin disease, scientists believe. Darwin's frogs were named after the father of evolution, who discovered them in 1834 in Chile during his voyage around the world on the ship HMS Beagle. Researchers think the northern Darwin's frog, one of two species, has been killed off completely by a fungal disease called chytridiomycosis that infects their skin. An analysis into the spread of the disease by a team from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Chile's Universidad Andres Bello found that habitat loss contributed to the decline, but this alone could not explain the animal's demise.
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