Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs ...

Pet frogs need very specific care to stay healthy and thrive. If you’ve got a little frog in your life, you’ll know that they ...

You know the feeling. It’s getting close to bedtime, you get sleepy, and you start yawning automatically. You may even find ...

But despite decades of work, and thousands of candidate compounds, no amphibian peptides have been turned into a marketable drug. “Frog skin is frankly baloney,” said Kim Lewis from Northeastern ...

which could result in secondary skin infections, and bone and muscle injuries caused by struggling during restraint. Frogs' skin is very fragile and should be handled with care. The handler must ...

While some frogs call the great outdoors on six continents (excluding Antarctica) home, others are domesticated, kept as pets ...

Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding ...

There are currently only two species of frog known to be venomous: Bruno's casque-headed frog (Aparasphenodon brunoi) and Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi). Both are found in Brazil and ...

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 ...

As night fell across a mountain ravine in Ecuador, a “cryptic” creature with “blue” bones emerged from its hiding spot and ...

Northumberland Wildlife Trust is urging gardeners not to relocate frogs or frog spawn this spring, warning of the risk of two deadly diseases.