{
  "id": 14519194,
  "title": "Museum specimens reveal pathogen behind decades-old mystery of disappearing frogs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/museum-specimens-reveal-pathogen-behind-decades-old-mystery-of",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-14T19:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-museum-specimens-reveal-pathogen-decades.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In the 1970s, researchers began to observe drastic amphibian declines in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a global hotspot of frog biodiversity. For decades, these disappearances remained a mystery. Now, new research from scientists at the Center for Conservation Genomics at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and Pennsylvania State University (PSU), published today…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}