Bid to find a Valentine for Romeo, world's 'loneliest frog'
With Valentine's Day approaching, please spare a thought for Romeo the lonesome Bolivian frog.
View ArticleDevoted frog fathers guard their eggs from predators
A study led by Ph.D. candidate Mr K. S. Seshadri from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Science has revealed that male white-spotted bush frogs...
View ArticleHow new evidence of sex reversals helps show how sex chromosomes are...
When it comes to sex, frogs, just like in people, exhibit a similar XX (female) and XY (male) sex chromosome pattern of inheritance.
View ArticleEcologist unearths the foothill yellow-legged frog's past in order to inform...
Once abundant in Southern California, the foothill yellow-legged frog inexplicably vanished from the region sometime between the late 1960s and early 1970s. The reasons behind its rapid extinction have...
View ArticleFrogs reveal mechanism that determines viability of hybrids
Why are some hybrids viable and others not? It is known that this depends on the father species and the mother species. New research in two related frog species shows the influence of mother and father...
View ArticleWidespread chemical contaminants stunt growth of amphibians
A series of synthetic chemicals widely used in household products, food packaging and clothing have a significant effect on the development of frogs, even at low doses, according to a Purdue University...
View ArticleMutated frog gene repels predators
Post-doctoral researcher Andrés Posso-Terranova and his former supervisor José Andrés have found evidence that a single gene called MC1R controls the deep black color on the skin of these poisonous...
View ArticleStudy provides insights for combating devastating amphibian disease
Amphibian chytridiomycosis, caused by infection with the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus, is the most devastating vertebrate disease on record. The fungus infects more than 600 species of...
View ArticleStudy finds 'black box' methods used by biologists probably overestimate...
Do researchers need to "hit the brakes a little" before declaring a species is new to science?
View ArticleTurkey frees 7,500 illegally hunted frogs into river
Turkish gendarmerie have released 7,500 illegally hunted frogs—which had been destined for dining tables in China and France—into safe waters, after uncovering a poaching ring.
View ArticleAtrazine alters the sex ratio in Blanchard's cricket frogs
A study published recently in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry found that Blanchard's cricket frogs are highly sensitive to atrazine. When exposed, there were up to 55% fewer males than females...
View ArticleAn engineer's guide to the embryo
In roughly 48 hours, the single cell of the fertilized frog egg will undergo dramatic change to develop vital body parts like muscles, a skeleton, eyes, a heart, and a tadpole tail. Scientists have...
View ArticleEmerging infectious disease threatens Darwin's frog with extinction
Iconic species likely to be wiped-out by amphibian fungus, despite lack of obvious short-term evidence.
View ArticleWhy poison frogs don't poison themselves
Don't let their appearance fool you: Thimble-sized, dappled in cheerful colors and squishy, poison frogs in fact harbor some of the most potent neurotoxins we know. With a new paper published in the...
View ArticleTiny Brazilian frogs are deaf to their own calls
Pumpkin toadlets, found on the leaf litter of Brazil's Atlantic forest, are among the smallest frogs in the world. An international team from Brazil, Denmark and the United Kingdom, has discovered that...
View ArticleBite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog
Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been capable of eating small dinosaurs.
View ArticleFoster tadpoles trigger parental instinct in poison frogs
Poison frogs, especially male poison frogs, are very caring parents. After the tadpoles hatch, the males piggyback their offspring to distant pools spread around the rainforest where they can feed and...
View ArticleThis dance is taken: Hundreds of male frog species change colors around...
Some of nature's most vibrant colors occur in frogs, who peek out from rainforests and marshes in startling shades of blue, yellow and red. But for hundreds of species, only males flaunt flashy...
View ArticleEmerging disease further jeopardizes North American frogs
A deadly amphibian disease called severe Perkinsea infections, or SPI, is the cause of many large-scale frog die-offs in the United States, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
View ArticleBaw Baw frog charms researchers in battle against extinction
Scientists are racing against time to save Victoria's unique Baw Baw frog - facing extinction from a fungus threatening a third of Australia's frog species.
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