Following an examination of iris patterns in 960 frog species across 47 families, K S Seshadri, S Gangothri, and Maria Thaker noted that, surprisingly, irises were not correlated with where a frog ...
Thalassa Matthews receives funding from The National Research Foundation and the Centre of Excellence for Palaeontology. Around 5.1 million years ago, fascinating and now extinct animals like ...
1. The effects of habitat fragmentation on the distribution pattern of the moor frog Rana arvalis were investigated. Also, the possible isolation effects of the road network were taken into account. 2 ...
For the first time, biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that ...
Animal activity patterns can be influenced by selection pressures from local environmental conditions that might fluctuate at different temporal scales. Although studies with frog species and local ...
The brightly colored species had been misidentified in museum records and field observations since 1988, according to a study.
The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why ...
As an electrical storm hit a small town in eastern South Africa, wildlife expert Nick Evans drove past a field in KwaZulu-Natal Province. He said he and two friends pulled over after hearing the calls ...