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Toxin sponges may protect poisonous frogs, birds from their own poisons, s
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 5 (ANI): A team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Stanford University, and the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered new clues as to how poisonous frogs and birds avoid intoxicating themselves.
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Bad water conditions may drive snakeheads onto land: Study
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 23 (ANI): Northern snakehead fish, which can survive on land, may flee water if it turns too acidic, salty or high in carbon dioxide, according to a new study.
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Eleven new species of rain frogs discovered in tropical Andes
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 4 (ANI): Eleven new rain frog species have been discovered in the tropical Andes making it the largest number of frog species described in a single article from the western hemisphere in over a decade.
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People in Udupi try 'frog wedding' for rains and respite from scorching he
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Mangaluru (Karnataka)[India], June 8 (ANI): In an attempt to appease the rain god, the 'Udupi Nagarika Vedike' (Udupi Citizen Forum) on Saturday arranged the marriage of two frogs. Locals believe this ritual, called Mandooka Parinaya, will get them rains and respite from the scorching heat.
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Climate change causing infectious diseases in UK frogs
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C [U.S.A], May 10 (ANI): A recent study claimed that climate change in the United Kingdom is causing the fatal disease Ranavirus which infects common frogs.
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Bacteria found in frog skin may help fight fungal infections in humans
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 2 (ANI): The past few decades has seen a lethal disease wipe off populations of frogs and other amphibians worldwide, even driving some species to extinction. Yet other amphibians resisted the epidemic.
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iD Fresh Food launches unique storytelling App
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Nov 21 (BusinessWire-India): Remember the time when grandparents narrated fascinating bedtime stories of cunning hares and foolish sages? There were caves that talked and frogs that rode on snakes.
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UP farmer's daughters plough field to please rain God
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 02 (ANI): Faced with the prospect of going yet another monsoon season without proper rainfall, two daughters of a farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district have joined their father in ploughing the field to appease the rain God, Lord Indra.
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UP: Frogs get 'hitched' to please rain God
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jun 24 (ANI): A wedding ceremony of two plastic frogs took place here, in the hope of an early monsoon.
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Dinosaur extinction set the stage for frog evolution
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 4 (ANI): Turns out, the global catastrophe that delivered the coup de grace to the dinosaurs was actually good news for frogs as they took a leap forward to survival after the mass extinction.
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Road salt affects sex ratio among frogs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 23 (ANI): A recent study published in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences has found that road salts alter the sex ratios in frog population.
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