frogs
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That Might Have Been The Most Beautifully Surreal Episode Of Doctor Who Ever
It Takes You Away” might have pushed Doctor Who to one of its strangest extrapolations of itself.
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Scientists Find Incredibly Well-Preserved Organs (And Frog Parts) Inside 35 Million-Year-Old Salamander Mummy
Luck doesn’t strike daily. Sometimes you lose your wallet, trip up the stairs, get into a car accident, or drop your iPhone and crack the screen. But sometimes you get lucky. Your scratch off card has a five dollar prize. You find out that your young nephew, not your dog, ate the dark chocolate bar…
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How A Massive Asteroid Strike Helped Frogs Inherit The Earth
Frogs have been around for nearly 200 million years, but it wasn’t until a 16km-wide asteroid struck our planet, wiping out three-quarters of all life on Earth — including the dinosaurs — that these crafty amphibians were able to make their big evolutionary move, according to new research.
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Frog Slime Could Prevent The Next Pandemic
New research from Emory University School of Medicine shows that a chemical in the mucus of South Indian frogs is capable of killing certain strains of the influenza virus. It will take a while for scientists to translate this finding into a useful medicine, but the discovery could lead to an entirely new source of…