A scientist from Ecuador is studying frogs covered in a potent neurotoxin — first found in puffer-fish — that could hold the key to a range of new medical treatments. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is being ...

This article is part of an occasional series in which Nature profiles scientists with unusual career histories or outside interests. On warm, muggy evenings, conservation biologist Anthony Waddle and ...

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...

Critical Toxicity Studies calls for the scientifically rigorous study of toxicants that handles all bodies and identities with care. My favorite meme about so-called gay frogs—feared to be feminized ...

Eating frogs is a cultural practice in some parts of Ghana, but now a researcher there is studying the impact of this wild harvesting. Sandra Owusu-Gyamfi, an amphibian biologist and final year PhD ...

Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs are rebounding from near-extinction in California. University of California Santa Barbara After nearly disappearing for good, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs are ...

Tracy Rittenhouse, associate professor of natural resources and the environment in UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR), was doing an experiment to study ranavirus ...

Frogs have been on the decline in the Chicago area. The health of the frog population tells us a lot about the health of our environment. Laura Cripe grew up hiking in LaBagh Woods on Chicago’s North ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...