Researchers used high-speed cameras and slowed the video to study the jumping abilities of frogs. The team found that the frogs can use their very stretchy muscles to create energy to jump up to more ...

Frogs really should have fantastically strong leg muscles to jump as far as they do. And yet their leg muscles are only a fraction as powerful as they would need to be…so where does this leaping power ...

Key genes that help burrowing frogs avoid wastage of muscle while they are dormant have now been identified by researchers. These genetic insights could help prevent muscle atrophy in bedridden human ...

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A small hibernating frog may be vital in helping man conquer space, according to new research. The burrowing frog, Cyclorana alboguttata, which grows to about three inches long, has the ability to ...

TETRODOTOXIN and saxitoxin are neurotoxins with very similar biological actions, though they are chemically distinct. Tetrodotoxin reduces the amplitude of the end plate potential elicited by neural ...