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Backpack frog battles: How evolution turned motherhood into armor
Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture.
Frogs have a unique distinction among all living land vertebrates. There are over 6,000 living species of frogs known to scientists, as well as countless extinct species — and yet they all contain ...
Biologists with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) spent Monday afternoon wading through ponds near Diamond Fork Canyon with one goal in mind: to find frog eggs. More specifically, the DWR ...
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 ...
A study led by PhD candidate Mr K. S. Seshadri from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Science has revealed that male white-spotted bush frogs ...
What child would not like to see, touch and maybe hold a bunch of frog eggs in their hands? March and April are good months to go hunt for them. A long-handled dip net with small mesh will make it ...
Frothy mucus might not sound like the most inviting living space, but for some frogs' offspring it is a lifesaving refuge from drought. The amphibians often lay their gelatinous eggs in pools of water ...
A tree frog: female (larger individual below) laying eggs, which are protected by the 'foam nest' and male (smaller individual above). When it comes to laying eggs, tree frogs have some unusual habits ...
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