Faster reproduction could hold key to saving critically endangered frog

Researchers believe introducing frogs to lower elevation areas would help them reach sexual maturity earlierResearchers are hoping to increase the population of one of Australia’s most endangered frogs by helping them reach sexual maturity earlier.The number of wild northern corroboree frogs, which are only found in cold, mountainous areas of the ACT and New South Wales, has been in sharp decline, mostly due to chytrid fungus. The fungus causes an infectious disease that is killing frogs a