Chronic diabetic skin ulcers are notoriously slow to heal, but an otherwise-wasted material may soon help change that. Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a ...

A technique that purifies frog skin, blends it into a paste and extracts its pure collagen has led to the design of a biocompatible wound care patch. Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological ...

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog carries eggs in a dorsal pouch on its back instead of dropping them into water. This ...

Deep in a tropical Ecuadorean Andes forest shrouded in darkness and mist, a future Case Western Reserve doctoral student and her biologist husband made an intriguing discovery: a nickel-sized frog ...

Frogs that freeze themselves solid in the winter and thaw in the spring inspired methods to extend the storage time for ...

A simple sample of the protective mucus layer that coats a frog’s skin can now be analyzed to determine how susceptible the frog is to disease, thanks to a technique developed by a researcher at the ...

Scientists test a new approach to protecting frogs from the deadly fungal pathogen Jennifer Zoon For decades, scientists have wondered whether the key to saving frogs from the deadly chytrid fungus ...

Researchers may have finally solved the mystery of the fungal pathogen that has been devastating amphibian populations worldwide. The fungus, known as Batrachonchytrium dendrobatisdis (Bd), appears to ...

Frogs and their amphibian cousins are being decimated by a deadly fungal infection contributing to the endangerment and extinction of hundreds of species around the world. The disease, ...

Galaxy frogs are endangered by flash photography, handling, and habitat disruption. Learn how tourism is harming this fragile ...

In nature, size is often misleading. Some of the most powerful defences on Earth belong not to large predators, but to ...