Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

In the 1930s, scientists began shipping African clawed frogs around the world for pregnancy testing. What they didn’t know was that the frogs carried a deadly fungal pathogen. That fungus would go on ...

Anne Fadiman's new book of essays take on topics that might not seem the most urgent of our times. But we soon learn otherwise. She writes about a pet she couldn't pet, a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet ...

A new initiative will use AI to support frontline health workers, aiming to improve care quality, and reach more patients amid severe health workforce shortages in Africa. 1 The $50 million in funding ...

How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays." Anne Fadiman's new book of essays take on ...

There was a very strange tradition back in history where people used frogs to correctly identify if a patient was pregnant – ...

Duduza – Elisa Magama (23) is set to become a chartered accountant (CA) and work for a top auditing firm in South Africa. Magama is a former foster child who became an orphan after the death of her ...

Microtubule asters in cytoplasmic extract of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. The spatio-temporal growth of the aster is coordinated by cell cycle waves that drive the polymerization (brighter ...