In this post, you’ll meet the invisible frog that may cause breakthroughs in medical research – as if its transparency wasn’t ...

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He reported the sighting in Loveland, which quickly took off across the small town of 13,000, garnering surprise and mysticism as residents asked themselves if the story of a human-sized frog ...

Researchers from the US studied the plasticity in growth and development of wood frog larvae in response to the emerging ... stage by those in uninfected or uninfected ponds, and ended up small for ...

An emerging, potentially deadly disease of frogs and salamanders is ranavirus ... those in uninfected or uninfected ponds, and ended up small for their stage at their death from the disease.

Launching oneself at a moving target is not an exact science. Many frogs are efficient at it, but smaller species sometimes struggle. It’s not exactly accurate to claim a frog has poor aim, but it is ...

Researchers surveying the area noticed small frogs sticking halfway out of the temporary streams and thought they looked like the genus Rupirana, according to a study published March 14 in the ...

These clusters are attached to small twigs or other underwater vegetation. The eggs hatch within a few days, and the tadpole stage typically lasts about two months. During the non-breeding season, the ...

Eggs are in small packets and form a single-layered film on the surface of the water. Clutch size varies from 600 – 2,000 eggs. Because the toads have bodies that are round with short legs, males ...