Natasha Kruger receives funding from the DSI-NRF Centre of excellence for Invasion Biology, Ambassade de France en Afrique du Sud (France). This study was part of the project Life Control stRategies ...

An invasive species — one that can survive in drought, freezing weather and even outer space — is consuming and competing with native species in western Washington, officials are warning. Scientists ...

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — An invasive species is consuming and competing with native species in western Washington, including salmon. Scientists have spotted African clawed frogs in Issaquah, Lacey and ...

African clawed frogs have more in common with humans than you might think, according to their newly sequenced genome, which shows a surprising number of commonalities with the human genome. The frog ...

Some of the work to address an invasive species in Lacey known as the African clawed frog included new fencing. Courtesy City of Lacey This is no innocent frog. The frog, known as the African clawed ...

The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) is the most commonly used frog in biological research 1. It is the model amphibian in developmental and molecular biology because, among other characteristics, ...

Natasha Kruger is a student at the Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She receives funding from Centre of excellence for Invasion Biology and ...

Add frogs with claws to the list of usual animals you might find in Florida. Residents may soon be facing off with another invasive pest as the nonnative tropical clawed frog has been identified in ...

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AFRICAN clawed frogs are cannibals. They will willingly eat their own tadpoles – but they like eating those of an endangered South African frog even more. Biologists are already familiar with the fact ...

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 ...