DELAYED FROG CASUALTIES OF THE KOREAN WAR: Yeah, what a click bait headline.

The article, however, is worth the read. Apparently a fungus traced to Korea is killing over 200 amphibian species worldwide.

This ecological super-villain, the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, has driven more than 200 amphibian species to extinction or near-extinction—radically rewiring ecosystems all over Earth.

“This is the worst pathogen in the history of the world, as far as we can tell, in terms of its impacts on biodiversity,” says Mat Fisher, an Imperial College London mycologist who studies the fungus.

Now, a global team of 58 researchers has uncovered the creature’s origin story. A groundbreaking study published in Science on Thursday reveals where and when the fungus most likely emerged: the Korean peninsula, sometime during the 1950s.

An assault on amphibians, which I suppose is at least rhetorically related to an amphibious assault.