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Water rats in Western Australia are safely hunting cane toads.

September 23, 2019

Eat your heart out: native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads

Marissa Parrott, The University of Melbourne; Sean Doody, University of Newcastle, and Simon Clulow, Macquarie University

When neatly dissected cane toad corpses began turning up next to a creek in the Kimberley, scientists went on the hunt for the clever killer.

The horned land frog (Sphenophryne cornuta) carries babies on its back. New Guinea must be protected from the deadly chytrid fungus, or we could see around 100 frog species be wiped out.

June 3, 2019

A deadly fungus threatens to wipe out 100 frog species – here’s how it can be stopped

Deborah Bower, University of New England and Simon Clulow, Macquarie University

The island of New Guinea is home to 6% of the world’s frogs, but if the deadly chytrid fungus invades it could cause a mass extinction.

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