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Watching My Frog Eat Its Skin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey4scbsoIxw I caught one of my African Clawed Frogs shedding while doing a water change. Subscribe to my Youtube channel: http:/...

Fun with Frogs - What Happens When You Don't Clean a Filter in a Year

Since "raising tadpoles" doesn't make much sense as a title when the tadpoles have long since become frogs, allow me to introduce you to the "Fun with Frogs (& ...

How Birds See Colors Differently

Categorical perception is the ability to divide various wave lengths of light into separate groups of color. The concept of blue, red, purple, etc. are examples...

Lunar Mass Anomaly Found

At roughly 1600 miles, ~2500 kilometers, wide and 8 miles, 13 kilometers, deep, the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in the solar syst...

Animal Profiles: Eastern long-necked turtle - (Chelodina longicollis)

The Eastern long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis) is a semi-aquatic, southeastern Australian species. As the name suggests, the Eastern long-necked turtle ...

Using Scorpions to Make Tumors Glow

A full third of brain tumors are gliomas, a category of tumor that may not respond to chemotherapy or radiation treatment and tend to grow quickly into the surr...

Frogs Following in Elephants' Footsteps - Literally

Frogs have been using the puddles created by the footsteps of Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, as safe places to spawn their young. A team of researchers, seek...

Bees First Insects Shown to Connect Symbols & Numbers

Honeybees are the first invertebrates shown to possess the ability to connect man-made symbols with an actual number value. Previously, the ability has been sho...

Chemical in Broccoli Sprouts Could Help Treat Schizophrenia Symptoms

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes the patient to not only act erratically, but to have a fundamentally disconnected sense of reality in severe case...

Killer Shrimp Psychs Out an Ecosystem

When attempting to examine the widespread ecological effects of invasive species, scientists will typically focus on the damage caused by food source competitio...

Finding the Cells That Make Regeneration Possible in Tadpoles

African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, tadpoles have the well-known ability to fully regenerate their tails when damaged, however, there's a two day period during...

3-D Printing Organs

With over 100,000 people in the United States on the organ transplant list, there remains a chronic shortage of organs to go around and even for those patients ...

Viewing the Universe Through a New Lens

When attempting to map out the universe, one of the most valuable resources at the disposal of researchers is the cosmic microwave background, CMB. CMB is the f...

Escaped Feral Parrots Form Colonies

Whether by escape or release, parrots and various other bird species popular in the pet trade have been entering into the wilderness of the United States for de...

Origins of Salty Diamonds

There are two broad categories of diamonds, generally speaking. Gem diamonds are the diamonds that are the most expensive due to their clear, jewelry-quality ap...

Unique Form of Color Vision Found in Deep Sea Fish

Normal color vision involves the cones, which only function in the light, hence the reason that extremely few vertebrates possess color vision at night, as only...

Animal Profiles: Cuban Crocodile - (Crocodylus rhombifer)

The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), also known as the Pearly crocodile, is a medium-sized crocodile that grows to about 10 feet, 3 meters, long and weig...

Rethinking How the First Stars Died

None of the first generation stars, classified as Population III due to their lack of heavy metals, are believed to survive today, leaving studying the remainin...

Wasps Display Ability Once Thought Limited to Humans

'Transitive inference' is a type of rational reasoning used to form inferences about unstated facts through stated facts. Take the following set of letters: A, ...

Remains of Nuclear Tests Found in Deep Ocean Trenches

The effects of nuclear weapons continue to impact even the farthest flung reaches of our world today. Radioactive C14 has been found in the muscles of deep sea ...