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  1. Animals

    Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal sacs

    Shape matters as well as size in the great range of male frog show-off equipment for competitive seductive serenades.

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  2. Animals

    Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water

    Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

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  3. Life

    Toxin-gobbling bacteria may live on poison dart frog skin

    Toxins on poison dart frog skin mold the skin's microbial community, boosting species variety and potentially even feeding some daredevil bacteria.

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  4. Science & Society

    Some science seems silly, but it’s still worthwhile

    The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog contends that curiosity-driven research helps us understand the world and could lead to unexpected benefits.

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  5. Readers discuss the psychedelic psilocybin, frogs and UFOs

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  6. Animals

    Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions

    As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.”

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  7. Of frogs and the people who love them

    Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses frogs and chytrid fungus, trilobite fossils and a dinosaur named after the Norse god of mischief.

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  8. Animals

    Some tadpoles don’t poop for weeks. That keeps their pools clean

    Eiffinger’s tree frog babies store their solid waste in an intestinal pouch, releasing less ammonia into their watery cribs than other frog species.

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  9. Life

    The oldest known fossil tadpole was a big baby

    Fossils of the ancient frog Notobatrachus degiustoi push the known tadpole timeline back more than 30 million years.

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  10. Animals

    Pheromone fingers may help poison frogs mate

    Specialized glands in the fingertips of some males may produce seductive chemical signals.

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  11. Animals

    A frog’s story of surviving a fungal pandemic offers hope for other species

    Evolving immunity to the Bd fungus and a reintroduction project saved a California frog. The key to rescuing other species might be in the frog’s genes.

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  12. Animals

    Tiny saunas help frogs fight off chytrid fungus

    Balmy shelters could bolster resistance to the deadly fungus in amphibian populations, but experts caution they won’t work for all susceptible species.

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