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Deformed American toads

New study shows diversity decreases chances of parasitic disease

Biology /

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study showing that American toads who pal around with gray tree frogs reduce their chances of parasitic infections known to cause limb malformations has strong implications ...





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Tadpoles Used to Rapidly Detect Water Pollution

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted by University of Wyoming Professor Paul Johnson and others demonstrates that genetically modified tadpoles work well as sensitive monitors for rapidly detecting water pollution.


Killer fungus threatening amphibians

Killer fungus threatening amphibians

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived when the dinosaurs didn't, but a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of them extinct, according to an article in the ...


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Frog embryos associate the smell of predators with danger

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in the US and Canada has found that frogs can learn to associate the smell of predators with danger, even as embryos.


Over 1,000 fish species 'threatened with extinction'

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.


Over 17,000 species threatened by extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.


Tiny UK parasitoid wasp discovered

Tiny UK parasitoid wasp discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of parasitoid wasp that feeds on a common whitefly pest has been discovered in the UK by a Natural History Museum scientist.


EPA fellow studies effect of mercury in toads

EPA fellow studies effect of mercury in toads

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Christine Bergeron of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, received a fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Center for ...


Study examines use of toad venom in cancer treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Huachansu, a Chinese medicine that comes from the dried venom secreted by the skin glands of toads, has tolerable toxicity levels, even at doses eight times those normally administered, and may slow disease progression in ...


'McDonalization' of frogs

'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.


Awards given for leukemia treatment, DNA advances

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Five scientists have won prestigious research awards for developing a life-saving leukemia treatment and for advances in "reprogramming" DNA, which led to a new kind of stem cell.



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