The study points to the possibility of iris patterns functioning as signals for social interactions among frogs, like eye colour in birds and fish. Building on the positive correlation between plain ...

For the first time, biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that ...

The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why ...

Thalassa Matthews receives funding from The National Research Foundation and the Centre of Excellence for Palaeontology. Around 5.1 million years ago, fascinating and now extinct animals like ...

Animal activity patterns can be influenced by selection pressures from local environmental conditions that might fluctuate at different temporal scales. Although studies with frog species and local ...

1. The effects of habitat fragmentation on the distribution pattern of the moor frog Rana arvalis were investigated. Also, the possible isolation effects of the road network were taken into account. 2 ...