The sparks of metal atoms may protect against double fertilization. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Whether you're a frog or a ...

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture.

Frogs and other amphibians lay eggs, but mammals give birth to live young, right? Not always. A newly described species of frog gives birth to live tadpoles, and is the only known frog to do so, ...

Scientists have never seen anything quite like this before. It’s a newly discovered species of fanged frog that gives direct birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. It isn’t that rare for ...

MUCH of my time as a biologist has been spent looking through a microscope at the beginnings of individual lives, partly in an effort to understand a little of how animals develop from eggs, partly ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Its fangs are not what makes the newly identified Indonesian frog species Limnonectes larvaepartus unique on Earth. The way it makes babies does. This little amphibian from the ...

New approach enables measurements of changes in thousands of proteins in the minutes after frog eggs are fertilized, revealing previously opaque molecular mechanisms. Researchers describe in detail ...

Wicker basket full of white and brown eggs - Biserka Stojanovic/Getty Images It is nearly impossible to tell if an egg sitting on the counter is fertilized or not by eyeballing it. Some chicken ...

I saw the most amazing thing in my friends’ yard the other day. It was a hot, dry day. The asphalt on her driveway was hot and dry as well - not the place for a worm (there were a few of those baked ...

The main story throughout the episode is that Mando is tasked with transporting Frog Lady from Tatooine to the estuary moon of Trask so that her husband—who was already on the planet—could fertilize ...

Some of nature's most fascinating fathers may be at risk of extinction. Male Darwin's frogs swallow their offspring in the tadpole stage, incubate their young in their vocal sacs, and eventually spit ...