The Monteverde golden toad went extinct in 1989. Photo: Wikipedia.
This probably won't be the last word on the demise of the Monteverde golden toad, but a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that normal El Niño conditions, not climate change, lead to the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus and caused the iconic Costa Rican species to go extinct.
Article continues: Costa Rica's Golden Toads Killed by El Niño & A Pathogen, Not Climate Change
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