Frogs

An artist’s impression of the gastric-brooding frog that was cloned by scientists working on the Lazarus Project (Artwork: Peter Schouten)

Science

Scientists clone extinct frog that gives birth from its mouth

Scientists working on the “de-extinction” Lazarus Project have successfully revived and reactivated the genome of an extinct Australian frog called the gastric-brooding frog.

Princeton engineers Michael McAlpine and Manu Mannoor with a frog peptide chip (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski)

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Frog skin provides crab-friendly alternative for detecting bacteria

Researchers have discovered that a substance from frog skin could replace the crab blood currently used for detecting bacteria on drugs and medical devices.

The skin of certain frogs, including this foothill yellow-legged frog, contain secretions that may lead to new antibiotics to fight infections that shrug off the effects of existing antibiotics. (Photo: Pierre Fidenci, CC)

Medical

Frog skin could thwart antibiotic-resistant germs

Frog skin could thwart antibiotic-resistant germs.

Among more than 350 species found in the eastern Himalayas is the world's smallest deer, the miniature muntjac, which stands only 20 inches tall

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Nature can still surprise us: more than 350 new species found in Himalayas

The WWF has released a report which details more than 350 new species scientists have discovered in the eastern Himalayas over the past decade, including the world's smallest deer.