Tadpoles try to flee dangerous virus in their pond by growing much faster than normal, research shows
The world's amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may ...
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Egg mass (IMAGE)
An aggregation of wood frog egg masses in a pond following spring breeding. Wood frogs are explosive, synchronous breeders that arrive at temporary freshwater ponds soon after snowmelt to reproduce ...
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Researcher finds that wood frogs evolved rapidly in response to road salts
We found that over the course of just 10 generations, these wood frogs evolved a much higher salt tolerance." The research team collected frog eggs from nine populations and allowed them to hatch ...
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Image of the Day: Scrambled Frog Eggs
When Xenopus frog eggs are experimentally ruptured, their cytoplasm rearranges itself to form compartments similar to cells, according to a study published October 31 in Science. The researchers, led ...