Frogs and Reptiles News
April 28, 2024
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Apr. 23, 2024 When we think of evolution, we think of a process that happens over hundreds or thousands of years. In research recently published, a species of frog that has evolved over the course of merely 25 years. The adaptation was spurred on by something ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Palaeontologists have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts -- it's all down to their skin. Palaeontologists studied 45-million-year-old fossil frogs from the Geiseltal site in central Germany. ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Scientists from Macquarie University have come up with an innovative way to stop cane toads killing native wildlife by training goannas to avoid eating the deadly ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Frogs display a remarkable diversity of species as a whole, but does the same hold true for their visual abilities? A new study sought to answer this question by collaborating with researchers in ...
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Apr. 3, 2024 A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every continent may have an Achilles heel. Scientists have discovered a virus that infects the fungus, and that could be engineered to save the ...
Mar. 27, 2024 A new study states that the combination of global warming and extreme heat events, alongside the continued expansion of deforestation in the world, ...
Mar. 15, 2024 A curious aspect of tree frogs is that they often lay their eggs on the ground where the risk of predation by natural enemies is greater than in the trees where they live. A research team suggested ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Two red-tailed coral snakes have been observed competing over a caecilian in the first documented wild case of kleptoparasitism within the family ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor in the collection of the Smithsonian's National ...
Mar. 18, 2024 The development of hair was of central importance for the evolution of mammals and thus also of humans. However, the evolutionary origin of the genetic program of hair was previously unknown. ...
Mar. 12, 2024 A new study of rice paddy snakes in Southeast Asia gives key details to their diversification and natural history, adding molecular evidence that the ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Grand-offspring of male frogs exposed to the pesticide linuron exhibited changes in their DNA that was linked to significant physiological impacts, a study reveals. The research highlights the ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Researchers have painstakingly taken computed topography (CT) scans of more than 13,000 individual specimens to create 3D images of more than half of all the world's animal groups, including mammals, ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A Halloween toy was among hundreds of plastic items found in the guts of dead sea turtles in the Mediterranean, a new study ...
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Mar. 7, 2024 The chance sighting of a dead snake beside a sandy track in remote Western Australia, and the investigation of its stomach contents, has led researchers to record the first known instance of a ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Researchers developed protocols for growing organoids that mimic a turtle liver, the first organoids developed for a turtle and only the second for any reptile. The discovery will aid deeper study of ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Fossils of a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived 66 million years ago, show a dramatically more biodiverse ocean ecosystem to what we see ...
Mar. 5, 2024 These reptiles move around tree trunks to seek warmth or shade. With trees disappearing, they would have trouble controlling their body temperature, a new study ...
Scientists Assemble a Richer Picture of the Plight and Resilience of the Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
Feb. 26, 2024 Up to only a few inches in length, with a lemon-hued belly, the foothill yellow-legged frog may seem unassuming. But its range once stretched from central Oregon to Baja California. In 2023, it was ...
Feb. 22, 2024 More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Scientists discovered antibodies that protect against a host of lethal snake ...
Feb. 16, 2024 Palaeontological analysis shows that a renowned fossil thought to show soft tissue preservation is in fact just paint. The fossil discovered in 1931 was thought to be an important specimen for ...
Feb. 14, 2024 A new study explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups and quantified the power these sites have on our understanding of ...
Jan. 24, 2024 Scientists have called for simple, effective steps to cut the number of people bitten by venomous ...
Jan. 22, 2024 Gliding winged-reptiles were amongst the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, researchers at the have ...
Jan. 17, 2024 A promising antibody failed testing. This is good news for developing a broad-spectrum antidote against the world's most dangerous snake ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have identified a 3D fragment of fossilized skin that is at least 21 million years than previously described skin fossils. The skin, which belonged to an early species of Paleozoic ...
Dec. 28, 2023 Researchers have identified a new iguana species, Wang's garden lizard (Calotes wangi), in southern China and northern Vietnam. This species, part of the Calotes versicolor complex, was ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Asian pit vipers of the genus Trimeresurus are notoriously difficult to tell apart and continue puzzling researchers to this day. Some species groups have similar-looking species (different species ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Researchers have identified a species of frog new to science. The Indonesian amphibian is the size of a quarter, unlike its two-pound cousins, and has tiny fangs. Nearly uniquely among amphibians, ...
Dec. 19, 2023 A newly identified protein helps poison dart frogs accumulate and store a potent toxin in their skin which they use for self-defence against ...
Nov. 30, 2023 By studying the skull shapes of dipsadine snakes, researchers have found how these species of snakes in Central and South America have evolved and adapted to meet the demands of their habitats and ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Paleontologists have identified a new fossil lizard, found in the western United States, which they say was an ancestor of modern geckos. And they gave it a name that honors the lead ...
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- Lab-Grown Liver Organoid to Speed Up Turtle Research, Making Useful Traits Easier to Harness
- Fossils of Giant Sea Lizard With Dagger-Like Teeth Show How Our Oceans Have Fundamentally Changed Since the Dinosaur Era
- 8 in 10 Lizards Could Be at Risk Due to Deforestation
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- Scientists Assemble a Richer Picture of the Plight and Resilience of the Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
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- Same and Different: A New Species of Pit Viper from Myanmar
- World's Smallest 'fanged' Frogs Found in Indonesia
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- Which Came First: The Reptile or the Egg?
- Vaccine Against Deadly Chytrid Fungus Primes Frog Microbiome for Future Exposure
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- A Hard Pillbug to Swallow: First X-Rays of Frog Feeding Show How They Consume Prey
- New Critical Period of Embryonic Sex Determination in Sea Turtles Identified
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- Discovering the Unknown Processes of the Evolutionary History of Green Lizards in the Mediterranean
- Australians Clueless About Their Country's Most Endangered Species
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- Sensor Disguised as a Sea Turtle Egg Allows Conservationists to Remotely Predict Nest Hatching Time
- New Scottish Fossil Sheds Light on the Origins of Lizards
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- How to MRI Your Dragon: Researchers Develop First Bearded Dragon Brain Atlas
- Tadpoles Undergo Surprising Number of Vision Changes When Becoming Frogs
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- Six New Species of Tiny Frog Discovered in Mexico
- Speed Thrills but Kills: Major Highway in India of Particular Concern to Reptiles and Amphibians