Stress in pet frogs can be caused by a number of different issues such as poor tank conditions, diet issues, or even ...

The Serra do Assuruá is in the north-central region of the Bahia state of Brazil, on the country’s east coast. The research ...

You know the feeling. It’s getting close to bedtime, you get sleepy, and you start yawning automatically. You may even find ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

The desert rain frog is nocturnal and uses the nighttime ... by burrowing underground and absorbing the water through their skin. The relationship between desert rain frogs and humans is ...

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

East Rock School seventh graders Leia and Lesly suited up in gloves and eye protection to pierce through the unexpectedly tough skin of a frog — and discover, through hands-on education, what a real ...

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 ...