Anneke Lincoln Schoeman receives funding from the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology. The African clawed frog is the world’s most widely distributed amphibian. It can be found lurking ...

Millions of years ago, one species of frog diverged into two species. Millions of years later, the two frogs became one again, but with a few extra chromosomes due to whole genome duplication. Such is ...

More than 6,000 virus-infected African clawed frogs were euthanized over the summer in a Washington State pond, The Olympian reported. The frogs are predatory, invasive and reproduce quickly. A ...

An invasive species is consuming and competing with native species, and is multiplying in several locations around the Puget Sound region. WDFW says the frogs pose a serious threat to the environment, ...

Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the most widely studied ...

The African clawed frog is a new tool for stem cell researchers, according to a paper published by scientists at the University of Edinburgh in the June 1 issue of Development. …the distinctive ...

In a new study, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers provide the first evidence that African clawed frogs in California harbor a deadly fungal infection that is decimating amphibian ...

A species of frog that was used from the 1930s to the 1950s in human pregnancy tests is a carrier of a deadly amphibian disease that is now threatening hundreds of other species of frogs and ...

Game wardens with the Nevada Department of Wildlife have tracked down what they say is a source of prohibited African clawed frogs found throughout Nevada over the past few weeks, seizing 68 more ...

A frog once widely imported and bred by hospitals because it lays eggs when injected with a pregnant woman's urine may have brought a deadly amphibian infection to the United States. African clawed ...