What if we could influence an embryo’s development by changing the electrical signals in its cells? That’s precisely what Michael Levin and his colleagues at Tufts University’s Allen Discovery Center ...

Discover how the dyeing poison frog uses vibrant patterns for both warning and camouflage in research highlighting distance-dependent coloration. It's not hard to imagine how these little frogs become ...

Following an examination of iris patterns in 960 frog species across 47 families, K S Seshadri, S Gangothri, and Maria Thaker noted that, surprisingly, irises were not correlated with where a frog ...

Have you ever heard of the galaxy frog? These beautiful frogs get their nickname for a good reason, thanks to their bright ...

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 ...

In fiction, electricity was needed to give life to Frankenstein, but a new study suggests nature does something similar. Scientists have just observed never-before-seen bioelectrical patterns on an ...