MUCH of my time as a biologist has been spent looking through a microscope at the beginnings of individual lives, partly in an effort to understand a little of how animals develop from eggs, partly ...

Scientists have never seen anything quite like this before. It’s a newly discovered species of fanged frog that gives direct birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. It isn’t that rare for ...

New approach enables measurements of changes in thousands of proteins in the minutes after frog eggs are fertilized, revealing previously opaque molecular mechanisms. Researchers describe in detail ...

Frogs and other amphibians lay eggs, but mammals give birth to live young, right? Not always. A newly described species of frog gives birth to live tadpoles, and is the only known frog to do so, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Its fangs are not what makes the newly identified Indonesian frog species Limnonectes larvaepartus unique on Earth. The way it makes babies does. This little amphibian from the ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. – A large, clawed frog is helping Oregon Health and Science University researchers better understand how the rare genetic disorder Fanconi anemia leads to DNA damage that typically ...