Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in ...

“Frog skin is frankly baloney,” said Kim Lewis from Northeastern University in Boston. “The scientific community has gone through tens of thousands of AMPs and not a single one of them made it through ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs ...

linked by anatomy and other features of their biology. Toads are frogs that, due to the nature of their coarse dry skin, are adapted to spend most of their life on land. We have three kinds in two ...

has “smooth” skin, a rounded snout and lets out a pulsing call, according to the study. The frog was found more than 100 miles from where related species are known to live. Mângia, et al (2025) ...

Mângia, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology In the eastern Brazil ... Rupirana kaatinga, or the white forest frog, has “smooth” skin, a rounded snout and lets out a pulsing call ...