In 1978, researchers studied one species of poison dart frog and found that the alkaloids in its bodies that made them poisonous were so toxic they named the frog Phyllobates terribilis ...
A high dose of the psychedelic psilocybin temporarily dissolves brain networks, Laura Sanders reported in “Psilocybin erases brain ‘fingerprints’” (SN: ...
The turquoise frog in Victor Berthelsdorf’s pond may look pretty, but for local turtles, bugs and other animals, it is anything but. Berthelsdorf first spotted the brilliantly colored American ...
The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...
Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology.
Although frog glue has been discovered throughout the ... Dyscophus and Breviceps both descended from a poisonous ancestor; and (2) their skin secretions evolved into glues independently.