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Plants & Animals Feb 6, 2024

FrogID has just logged its one millionth frog

The world's largest frog project has thrived because of citizen scientists using the FrogID app, the brainchild of a UNSW biologist.

Plants & Animals Feb 6, 2024

'Time to eat': Videos show that toe-tapping by frogs may be a strategy to draw out prey

It is well known that some species of frogs tap their posterior toes as they are seeking prey; this can be seen in many videos posted online. However, only a few studies to date have looked at the tapping habit itself, and ...

Plants & Animals Feb 3, 2024

Training an animal? An ethicist explains how and why your dog, but not your frog, can be punished

People talk to their pets every day: offering praise when they're good, reassurance when they're confused and affection when they're cuddling. We also speak to animals when they misbehave. "Why did you do that?" someone might ...

Ecology Jan 30, 2024

130 poisonous frogs seized at Bogota airport

Authorities in Colombia seized 130 poisonous frogs being trafficked through the Bogota airport on Monday and arrested the Brazilian woman carrying them.

Plants & Animals Jan 11, 2024

Gland-like tissue in saber-toothed frog lower jaw may be used for communication

A team of zoologists from the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science's Museum für Naturkunde, the University of Würzburg, both in Germany and ONG EnviSud Guinée, in Guinea, has found evidence that the gland-like ...

Plants & Animals Jan 5, 2024

Invasive, carnivorous frogs are now breeding in Georgia, biologists say

An invasive species of carnivorous tree frogs that feed on native wildlife are now breeding in Georgia, a sign that the amphibians have gained a stronger foothold in the state, biologists say.

Plants & Animals Dec 30, 2023

'Foul and loathsome' or jewels of the natural world? The complicated history of human-frog relations

When was the last time you saw a frog? Perhaps you came across one in your garden and wondered at its little hands, glossy skin, and what looked very much like a contented smile.

Plants & Animals Dec 20, 2023

World's smallest 'fanged' frogs found in Indonesia

In general, frogs' teeth aren't anything to write home about—they look like pointy little pinpricks lining the upper jaw. But one group of stream-dwelling frogs in Southeast Asia has a strange adaptation: two bony "fangs" ...

Ecology Dec 19, 2023

Protein allows poison dart frogs to accumulate toxins safely, shows study

Scientists have identified the protein that helps poison dart frogs safely accumulate their namesake toxins, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings solve a long-standing scientific mystery and may suggest ...

Molecular & Computational biology Dec 6, 2023

A mathematical model connects the evolution of chickens, fish and frogs

One of the most enduring, basic questions of life is: How does it happen? For instance, in human development, how do cells self-organize into skin, muscles or bones? How do they form a brain, a finger, a spine?

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