African clawed frogs get their name from the three claws on their hind feet, which are used to tear apart food. These aquatic ...

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Actually, they are quite similar. The three clawed frog species, Xenopus borealis, laevis and tropicalis, are about as closely related as a horse and a donkey. But when it comes to their comfort ...

According to the study’s authors, they were able to use a five-drug cocktail along with a wearable bioreactor to facilitate limb regrowth in several female African clawed frogs. The study is ...

A new chemical treatment allowed African clawed frogs, which normally don’t regenerate limbs, to regrow functional hind legs following amputation. Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He writes and ...

African clawed frogs used to be the best human pregnancy tests in the world. Doctors would inject a woman's urine into the back of a female frog; if positive, the frog would lay eggs. Frog or ...

A female African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, was housed at the Biological Resources Facility of North Carolina State University in a tank with two other females. The frog was ∼1.5 years old and ...