Pet frogs need very specific care to stay healthy and thrive. If you’ve got a little frog in your life, you’ll know that they ...

We also want to understand whether that works hand in hand with the presence of certain toxic proteins to activate the immune system ... on their skin, Weng explains. Similar to frogs ...

“Frog skin is frankly baloney,” said Kim Lewis from Northeastern University in Boston. “The scientific community has gone through tens of thousands of AMPs and not a single one of them made it through ...

“To have a drug that works as well [as opioids] but is actually targeting a completely independent receptor system is really ... At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog ...

Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding ...

Deep in a tropical Ecuadorean Andes forest shrouded in darkness and mist, a future Case Western Reserve doctoral student and her biologist husband made an intriguing discovery: a nickel-sized frog ...

and Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi). Both are found in Brazil and produce skin secretions like other poisonous frogs - but these species have spiny bone protrusions that make their poison ...