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I caught one of my African Clawed Frogs shedding while doing a water change. Subscribe to my Youtube channel: Music: Stevia Sphere – Mallsoft is Alive: ▶️ DTube ▶️ YouTube

Since "raising tadpoles" doesn't make much sense as a title when the tadpoles have long since become frogs, allow me to introduce you to the "Fun with Frogs (& Fish!)" series! I'll

Categorical perception is the ability to divide various wave lengths of light into separate groups of color. The concept of blue, red, purple, etc. are examples of this. For years, it was believed that

At roughly 1600 miles, ~2500 kilometers, wide and 8 miles, 13 kilometers, deep, the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in the solar system. Stretching a distance comparable to that

The Eastern long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis) is a semi-aquatic, southeastern Australian species. As the name suggests, the Eastern long-necked turtle claim to fame is it's disproportionately

A full third of brain tumors are gliomas, a category of tumor that may not respond to chemotherapy or radiation treatment and tend to grow quickly into the surrounding brain tissues. The spindly tendrils

Frogs have been using the puddles created by the footsteps of Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, as safe places to spawn their young. A team of researchers, seeking to examine the impact Asian elephants

Honeybees are the first invertebrates shown to possess the ability to connect man-made symbols with an actual number value. Previously, the ability has been shown in some apes and birds. In order to test

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes the patient to not only act erratically, but to have a fundamentally disconnected sense of reality in severe cases of psychotic episodes. Psychosis is a state

When attempting to examine the widespread ecological effects of invasive species, scientists will typically focus on the damage caused by food source competition and active predation of native-born species.

African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, tadpoles have the well-known ability to fully regenerate their tails when damaged, however, there's a two day period during development that they lose this ability.

With over 100,000 people in the United States on the organ transplant list, there remains a chronic shortage of organs to go around and even for those patients fortunate enough to receive a transplant,

When attempting to map out the universe, one of the most valuable resources at the disposal of researchers is the cosmic microwave background, CMB. CMB is the first form of electromagnetic radiation, as

Whether by escape or release, parrots and various other bird species popular in the pet trade have been entering into the wilderness of the United States for decades. A team of researchers used two different

There are two broad categories of diamonds, generally speaking. Gem diamonds are the diamonds that are the most expensive due to their clear, jewelry-quality appearance. They are typically composed of

Normal color vision involves the cones, which only function in the light, hence the reason that extremely few vertebrates possess color vision at night, as only the rods in the eye function in the dark.

The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), also known as the Pearly crocodile, is a medium-sized crocodile that grows to about 10 feet, 3 meters, long and weighs around 180 pounds, 80 kilograms. This

None of the first generation stars, classified as Population III due to their lack of heavy metals, are believed to survive today, leaving studying the remaining second generation, Population II, stars

'Transitive inference' is a type of rational reasoning used to form inferences about unstated facts through stated facts. Take the following set of letters: A, B, and C. You know that B is greater than

The effects of nuclear weapons continue to impact even the farthest flung reaches of our world today. Radioactive C14 has been found in the muscles of deep sea crustaceans that call hadal trenches home.