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Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas)
A red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) captured in Panama. A new study reports that some Central American frog species are recovering from the 40-year decline they've been under, perhaps because they have better defenses against a deadly fungal pathogen.
Read more about this research, supported in part by the National Science Foundation (grants IOS 1557634 and IOS 1121758), in the Vanderbilt University news story Study reveals frogs bouncing back in Panama. (Date image taken: June 2014; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: May 21, 2019)
Credit: Louise Rollins-Smith
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