African clawed frog tadpole. Image by Davefoc, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dolly the sheep Image via Unsplash ...

Miami - Scientists have discovered six new kinds of African clawed frog, boosting the number of known species by 30 percent and offering new avenues for research on human disease, said a study on ...

The new rain frog species was discovered in a small town in South Africa during an electrical storm, researchers said.

Inside was a foam box with clawed frog embryos in microcentrifuges, as well as embryonic samples in paraffin well stages and on mounted dyed slides. Petrova initially denied carrying any ...

In early spring (often as early as January or February, depending on the weather), adult frogs gather to breed ... and beginning to take on their ‘tadpole’ shape, wriggling inside their ...

Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in nine South African cultures. The list includes 136 frog and ...

Avoid fish (generally): People often add fish to ponds to control mosquitoes, but many frogs will avoid ponds with fish, which often eat amphibian eggs and tadpoles. If you do want fish ...

you’re going to see tadpoles and dragonfly larvae and you’re not going to see mosquito larvae.” The ponds give a leg up to frogs, which have survived tumult since before the dinosaurs ...