A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States.

Biology - Ecology

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Travelling around the top end of Australia, would you be able to tell the difference between a poisonous cane toad and a bumpy rocket frog or a giant frog? - They look similar but sound quite different. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

It is known as the amphibian chytrid fungus and can cause a deadly disease that is decimating some of the world's frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. However, the fungus had not been detected in the other ...

Biology - Ecology

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Scientists have discovered a new species of caecilian - a worm-like amphibian - whose young peel off and eat their mother's skin.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Undeniably charismatic, the Northern Quoll's big black eyes and impossibly long whiskers belie the face of a feisty, nocturnal predator that has – as conservation biologist Dr Jonathan Webb ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

A plunge in the world's population of frogs and toads may be blamed, at least in part, on farm pesticides, researchers in Germany said on Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 24, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 1

(Phys.org)—Most people are impressed by how a toad jumps. UC Irvine biologist Emanuel Azizi is more impressed by how one lands.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

It may be possible to stop the spread of can toads into new areas of Australia according to new research published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 12, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

Following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour—by putting a frog in the bucket of milk—scientists have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances in the skin of the Russian ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 12, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

An increasing number of men suffer from fertility problems, especially in western society. The general belief is that many problems may be related to stress but it is possible that some of them may arise because men simply ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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The common myna – popularly known as 'the cane-toad of the air' – has been convicted on new evidence it is pushing Australian native birds out of their home range.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Australia's native animals are being fed nauseating sausages of cane toad meat in a bid to train them against eating the foul, toxic species as it spreads into new areas, researchers said on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

An endemic mammal has been re-discovered in the eastern Kimberley, almost a century after its last recorded sighting.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 01, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working for the Herpetological Foundation of Sri Lanka have obtained a specimen of the Kandyan dwarf toad (Adenomus kandianus) near a stream in a sanctuary in the island nation of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 20, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- An effective new weapon in the fight against the spread of cane toads has been developed by the University of Sydney, in collaboration with the University of Queensland.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 13, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 12 |