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.
Perhaps the most fascinating fact about the hairy frog is its formidable, hidden claws. Wolverine, a character in the Marvel movies, can extend sharp claws and then retract them. His claws pierce ...
After disappearing from the wild due to a deadly fungal disease, the Panamanian golden frog is being reintroduced through the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project (PARC). In a recent trial ...
The toxin was found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said, challenging Russia’s official account. By Anton Troianovski ...
Anne Fadiman's new book of essays take on topics that might not seem the most urgent of our times. But we soon learn otherwise. She writes about a pet she couldn't pet, a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet ...
In the 1930s, scientists began shipping African clawed frogs around the world for pregnancy testing. What they didn’t know was that the frogs carried a deadly fungal pathogen. That fungus would go on ...
In the late 1980s, Jay M. Savage was among the first to recognize that amphibian declines in protected cloud forests were not isolated anomalies but part of a broader, global pattern that defied ...
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In the summer of 2024, cardboard shipping boxes containing 30 live African clawed frogs packed in damp wood shavings arrived at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. The amphibians were delivered to the new frog ...