The team of researchers led by Prof. Kristian Franze found that increasing tissue stiffness induces the expression of chemical signals that are typically absent in those regions. Semaphorin 3A is one ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

There was a very strange tradition back in history where people used frogs to correctly identify if a patient was pregnant – ...

State Officials including the Governor's Office said this week they're proclaiming February 23-27 as Invasive Species Week. It's not just insects, either. Ever seen an Asian Carp (fish)? An African ...

How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays." ...

A new artificial intelligence agent which better understands a user’s personal context and history has gone viral in technology circles, providing a glimpse of a future in which our devices — and our ...

Carrying one tadpole at a time, this frog father climbs high into the canopy to find the safest pools for his offspring. - [Narrator] A milk frog with his tadpoles. (water gurgling) His loud calls are ...

A gene duplicated in the evolutionary past has been shown to act as the master switch that determines whether embryos develop as male or female in the African clawed frog. That finding reveals how ...

Tiny Asian small-clawed otter pups practice swimming, learning life skills with joy. Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates 'Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now' actor ...

A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil. Genetic evidence and trade data suggest the fungus hitchhiked across the world ...

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 ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) ...