A forest floor in Papua New Guinea revealed the smallest vertebrate ever discovered on the surface of the planet. The tiny frog is smaller than the smallest fish, and is now known Paedophryne amanuensis. Though discovered nearly 3 years ago, it took experts a long time to present their findings to the world.
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12 January 2012
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Investigators have determined in a new study that certain types of frogs are able to encode information about how large their burrows are into the calls they send out to prospective mates. Their real estate thus becomes an extra reason for females to select them over their rivals.
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7 December 2011
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A new study supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) reveals that the secret to understanding the way frogs jump is looking at their tendons. Scientists at the Brown University were recently able to figure this out by filming the amphibians in slow-motion.
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16 November 2011
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The medical industry could stand to benefit considerably if researchers engaged in a new study manage to replicate the natural ability that the feet of tree frogs have, of cleaning themselves. Numerous medical instruments could be improved if they can clean themselves.What is so interesting about these particular fee... |
4 July 2011
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A new research published in the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) journal Animal Conservation, shows that the common British frog (Rana temporaria) populations are dramatically decreasing because of Ranavirus infections.This research gathered data from the public by the Frog Mortality Project and Froglife, an... |
8 October 2010
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The Indian Peninsula can be described as a “newcomer” to the Asian continent. It slammed into the region millions of years ago, after separating form a previous supercontinent and moving across the Indian Ocean. When it struck Asia, it triggered the formation of the Himalayas, as well as the creation of h... |
7 August 2010
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Naturalists have managed to finally rediscover a species of extremely rare and endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs, which were last spotted some half a century ago in California. Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Natural History Museum discovered the elusive amphibians ... |
27 July 2009
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Cyclorana alboguttata (the burrowing frog) is one of the least known animals in the world. And certainly the fact that it's a frog doesn't help it all that much either. However, most of you would be surprised to learn that the vertebrate can do only what bacteria have been known to be capable of, which ... |
29 June 2009
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The last Ice Age, when glaciers advanced through much of Europe, was not very kind to the Irish wildlife, as much of it was completely annihilated and never recovered. However, it seems that a brave little frog species managed to endure, and toughed out the extremely cold weather. At the same time, members of the sam... |
18 March 2009
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If you're a naturalist looking to leave your name in the history book as the discoverer of new animal species, maybe the Tacarcuna area of the Darien, a mountainous region near the Panama border, is the right place for you to start exploring. Scientists from Conservation International (CI) and Ecotropico Foundat... |
5 February 2009
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For the past few years, biologists believed that the increasing number of mutations they observed in salamanders and frogs was a direct result of inbreeding, caused by the reduction of the natural habitats of the amphibians. However, recent scientific data seem to suggest that this is not the case, and that man-made ... |
4 November 2008
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The number of amphibious creatures in the ponds in Yellowstone Park is severely declining, Stanford scientists say. They place this phenomenon on global warming, which keeps drying up the fishless ponds that were the perfect habitat for frogs and salamanders to lay their eggs. New surveys showed that the number of la... |
29 October 2008
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The fossil of an animal that lived on Earth some 290 million years ago, having features resembling those of frogs and salamanders alike, has been found during the 1990s in Texas by a paleontologist and colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution. The fossil remained in the collection of the National Museum of Natural... |
22 May 2008
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Scooter must hurry to save his planet! Power supplies are running out and to save them he must win the coveted "Super Ribbinite". Compete to become the Frolf Champion across 20 different courses on 5 different worlds. You must defeat all your opponents to win The Frolf Cup and the Super Ribbinite. Planet Hippitron is... |
11 September 2007
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