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An invasive toad species has been wreaking havoc in the waters of northern Australia, but scientists may have found a ...
Cane toad tadpoles have ravenous appetites already ... that are just ideally suited to control the numbers of their own species,” Rick Shine, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at Australia ...
Scientists have knocked out genes that trigger cane toad tadpoles to turn into active toads, turning them into "Peter Pan"-like perpetual adolescents. The work provides a way to slow or halt the ...
which allowed the researchers to conclude that the morphology of the tadpoles has remained almost unchanged over the last 160 million years. The animal belongs to a species known as 'Notobatrachus ...
Cane toad tadpoles already have an appetite for eggs of their own species, but these modified versions may eat several times as many, making them a potential solution for controlling the ...
Axolotls are a species of amphibian native to Mexico but are now rare in the wild. They do not go through metamorphosis like other amphibians, and remain in their larval tadpole state as an adult.