Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in early testing. Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, adapting ...

who say the unusual colouring is probably due to a genetic mutation causing it to lose certain skin pigments. As its name suggests, the magnificent tree frog (Litoria splendida) is already a ...

I recently did an informative delve-about within the Dark Web, which I’ll use to also cover the Deep Web. As mere web mortals, we deal almost exclusively with the upper 10% of the available WWW, which ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

While some frogs call the great outdoors on six continents (excluding Antarctica) home, others are domesticated, kept as pets ...

as the frogs moved from flower to flower and pollen was seen sticking to their moist skin. They outlined this observation in their study, which sparked the hypothesis that this tree frog might be ...

Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree frogs exhibit the most extreme form ... while females in the pools absorb water through their skin. When she’s hydrated enough, a female heads for an ...

and Ranwella's horned tree frog (Polypedates ranwellai). P. ranwellai belongs to a genus of frog known to have deadly tetrodotoxin in its skin secretions - although to date the Ranwella's horned tree ...

The calling animal turned out to be a new species. A team of researchers set out to study the hourglass tree frog, a “small, brightly colored species” found in Central and South America.