Frogs that are part alpaca and other genetically engineered wildlife could soon be running and hopping around Australia.

Artificial adaptations to disease, feral pests and climate change are all possible because of advances in tools that allow scientists to "edit" DNA — the genetic instructions of living organisms.

And genetically altered mosquitoes, quolls, and cane toads may soon be released into the Australian wild.

In the case of Australia's 200-plus frog species, the technology could help make the amphibians resistant to a deadly disease introduced to the country in the 1970s.

Six (or possibly seven) species of Australian frogs are believe to have gone extinct at least partly due to the chytrid fungus. Loading...

The highly virulent fungus causes the deadly disease chytridio

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