frogs
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The First Fluorescent Frog Ever Discovered Is Ridiculously Cute
Aside from its namesake spots, the polka-dot tree frog is just about the plainest looking frog you’ve ever seen — a boring green. That is, until you turn off your torch and hit it with some ultraviolet rays.
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Scientists Hope To Foil Deadly Frog Fungus With More Fungus
It’s been called “the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates”. The devastating effect of the chytrid fungus on frog populations around the world has contributed to the extinction of at least 200 species and no one knows where it came from. But now scientists are hoping to tweak the amphibian’s evolutionary development by bulking…
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Biologists Have Discovered Underground, Burrowing Tadpoles
Scientists have documented Indian dancing frogs for over a century. For that century, they have found only adult frogs. At last, a team of biologists have found the tadpoles that develop into frogs — and they have found them underground.
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This Is The Last Thing A Fly Ever Sees
Video: This 48 second clip tells us something about why flies stick to a frog’s tongue — and it’s almost scarier than Prometheus, with a monster lurching out of the darkness to launch an attack.