Deep in a tropical Ecuadorean Andes forest shrouded in darkness and mist, a future Case Western Reserve doctoral student and her biologist husband made an intriguing discovery: a nickel-sized frog ...

“Frog skin is frankly baloney,” said Kim Lewis from Northeastern University in Boston. “The scientific community has gone through tens of thousands of AMPs and not a single one of them made it through ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

Therefore, it’s very useful to learn how to support your pet frog during their shedding so you can help them stay fit and healthy. Frogs shed their skin regularly throughout their lives ...

A viral video with 6.9 million views on social media shows a boy unknowingly causing a huge shock to his mother by placing a live frog on her face while she sleeps. The internet is amused by this ...

and Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi). Both are found in Brazil and produce skin secretions like other poisonous frogs - but these species have spiny bone protrusions that make their poison ...