Charles Darwin, famed for his theory of evolution, profoundly influenced modern biology. Notably, Darwin shared a birthdate ...

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 Darwin’s frogs, following the zoo’s urgent mission to rescue the critically ...

Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was ...

This is the Southern Darwin Frog, named after the famed scientist. The creatures were first discovered in Chile in 1841, but recently they nearly went extinct after the chytrid fungus wiped out 90% of ...

Our biological sciences students explore the complexities of life and work to address global challenges in biology. Our faculty advance knowledge in a wide range of disciplines within the biological ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological ...

“To jump on the water surface, you have to have your legs retracted and ready to push down again by the time you’re ...

Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, ...

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

Feb. 5, 2025 — With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A ...

This term refers to the frog’s ability to execute multiple rapid jumps across a water surface. Their findings, detailed in the Journal of Experimental Biology, feature graduate researcher Talia Weiss ...