Tag: current events

• Frogs Thought to be Extinct may be Fighting Back Against Skin-Eating Fungus

  

  The disease is an aggressive fungal infection called chytridiomycosis. It is caused by a type of chytrid fungus, colloquially known as Bd, which is shorthand for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. 

  Devon Bowker

  April 30, 2018

  Amphibians, The Wild Life Blog

  amphibian, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, bd, biological evolution, biology, book, chytrid, current events, disease ecology, dr jaime voyles, earth, ecology, environment, evolution, frog, herpetology, jaimie voyles, life, naturalist, nature, panama, voyles lab

• #SundayFishSketch: Butterflyfish

  

  Butterflyfish area group of around 120 species in the Family Chaetodontidae. The one in this weeks #SundayFishSketch is the Copperband butterflyfish.

  Devon Bowker

  April 8, 2018

  Fish, The Wild Life Blog

  animals, biology, Blue Planet, butterfly fish, butterflyfish, coral, current events, earth, ecology, environment, Fish, fishes, Ichthyology, life, nature, Ocean, reef, Rene Martin, Sea, subtropical, SundayFishSketch, the wild life, thewildlife, tropical, wilderness, wildlife