The males stayed with their tadpoles in small water-filled cavities high in the trees. But what proved to be a more pernicious threat was also afoot, destroying amphibian populations throughout the forests of Central America: an infectious skin disease called amphibian chytridiomycosis that had been unleashed among wild amphibians almost certainly by human activity. Dozens of frog and toad species were driven extinct. _________Think you know “amphibian”? Quiz yourself:

Source: New York Times February 07, 2017 07:00 UTC