Yes, you read the title correctly — I grew up with an African dwarf frog as a pet. Not a dog, cat, hamster or bunny … but a small, 3-inch-long, brownish-green aquatic African dwarf frog. It was winter ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ryp Walters with Froggy’s Lair says these ...

The ability to regenerate lost or amputated limbs varies greatly among amphibians. To gain a better understanding of phylogenetic and ontogenetic factors influencing regenerative ability, regeneration ...

The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) is the most commonly used frog in biological research 1. It is the model amphibian in developmental and molecular biology because, among other characteristics, ...

Researchers have discovered half a dozen new species of the African clawed frog, and added back another to the list of known species, in the process uncovering striking new characteristics of one of ...

African clawed frog genome contains two full sets of chromosomes from 2 two extinct ancestors. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 10 / ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday that the agency is collaborating with public health agencies in several states to investigate a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak ...

AFRICAN clawed frogs are cannibals. They will willingly eat their own tadpoles – but they like eating those of an endangered South African frog even more. Biologists are already familiar with the fact ...

As an owner of 3 African claw frogs (2 recently deceased) 2 Dwarf African Frogs (whom just had tadpoles who actually survived in the bowl and now have grown arms and legs), and 2 american bullfrog ...

The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, is a palm-sized, greenish-gray animal that hails from the ponds and rivers of sub-Saharan Africa, where it lived for millions of years without anyone injecting ...

A frog once widely imported and bred by hospitals because it lays eggs when injected with a pregnant woman's urine may have brought a deadly amphibian infection to the United States. African clawed ...