Scientist believe that black frogs were protected by radiation thanks to the melanin in their skin, giving hope that the area ...

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 ...

The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused the the largest ever release of radioactive material into the ...

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 ...

Figure 3: The same juvenile American tree frog as in Figs ... of the small size and vulnerability of the frog. The permeability of the amphibian skin allows many exogenous water-soluble compounds ...

The world’s most beautiful frogs often have vibrant colourful appearances and are poisonous. Colourful frogs like the Blue ...

Plus, the frogs secrete a slimy film that can irritate some people’s skin and eyes, and it’s not like the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has “Cuban tree frog cops” to ...

A SHOCK discovery in mutant black frogs could lead to humans returning to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone.

They have spiny ribs that protrude through their skin, so their poisons may be imparted through a wound as venom. The authors also suggest that other frogs with spines in the head region could be ...

A juvenile American tree frog (Hyla cinerea) of unknown age was presented to the Exotic Service at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine for an acute onset of swelling of the left ...

Tree frogs are a type of amphibian that have evolved ... Some amphibians breathe through their skin! Metamorphosis – The changes that some animals go through as they grow. The change from ...

The scientist at the University combined the unique characteristics of the Central American frog with skin peptide profiling and a genetic assessment. And that, says Gray, clearly identified the ...