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New Ecuadorian frog species is armed with special skin-puncturing claw - National Geographic

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- January 09, 2019

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12 Tips You Need When Cooking With Crab - Tasting Table

- November 22, 2022

Making the most of cooking crab starts with sourcing. Chef Jeremy Sewall advises buying live crabs that are in good shape. "Make sure the crabs are very lively," he says. The freshest crabs will still have spunk. There's plenty to know when buying crab, but one key rule is if they are barely moving, pass on them, and never buy dead raw crabs. When it comes to fresh crab, buying local is best. Crustaceans, like other sea creatures, have various species that live in different regions of the ocean. Sewall said he is "a big fan of sticking with local crab." Based in Boston, he loves to cook with fresh Jonah crab, which are from New England. Other regional specialties include Dungeness crab in California, king crab in Alaska, and blue crab in the Mid-Atlantic. If you don't live in a coastal area or want to try a species from a different region, there are plenty of online vendors that will ship you live crabs. Look for companies with quick product turnover a...

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largest tortoise :: Article Creator Giant Tortoise Celebrates Becoming A Father... And Turning 135! Image caption, Goliath has become a father for the very first time at 135! A Galapagos tortoise named Goliath celebrated his 135th birthday on Father's Day. But reaching an impressive age isn't the only special event that's happened in his life recently. Up until this year, the giant tortoise, which lives at Zoo Miami in Florida and weighs more than 230 kilograms, had never had any offspring of his own. That all changed when one egg out of a group of eight hatched on 4 June, making him a father for the very first time. It means his latest birthday also turned out to be his very first Father's Day. More of the latest animal stories Birds listen in on prairie dog calls to stay safe Which furry heroes are up for a National Cat Award? Supercute, endangered and runnin...

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- July 01, 2025

small green frogs :: Article Creator See The World's Tiniest Frogs - And Why Being So Small Is So Hard - BBC 20 February 2024 ShareSave Sarah Bregel Features correspondent ShareSave Brachycephalus pulex are now the smallest known vertebrates (Credit: Renato Gaiga) Brachycephalus pulex might be the title holders for world's smallest vertebrate. But it's not easy being green – or tiny. Scientists believe they may know what the world's smallest vertebrate is. A tiny, pea-sized Brazilian frog called Brachycephalus pulex (or, Brazilian flea toad, even though it is a frog) has the tiniest measurements, according to new research. Back in 2011, Mirco Solé, a researcher at the State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil, was the first to investigate this species' size compared to that of other similar frogs. The sample wasn't large enough at the time to be conclusive, but the most recent research, in which So...

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- October 29, 2024

amelanistic corn snake :: Article Creator Eastern Coral Snake Common Name: Eastern Coral Snake Scientific Name: Micrurus fulvius Average Life Span In Captivity: Up to 7 years Size relative to a 6-ft man: IUCN Red List Status:? Least concern Least Concern Extinct Current Population Trend: Stable A bite from the notoriously venomous eastern coral snake at first seems anticlimactic. Venom There is little or no pain or swelling at the site of the bite, and other symptoms can be delayed for 12 hours. However, if untreated by antivenin, the neurotoxin begins to disrupt the connections between the brain and the muscles, causing slurred speech, double vision, and muscular paralysis, eventually ending in respiratory or cardiac failure. This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red a...

- April 08, 2023

lizard tongue :: Article Creator Tyrannosaurus Teeth Were Hidden Behind Lizard-Like Lips The Tyrannosaurus is typically depicted with its fearsome fangs on full display. But a paper published in Science states that the theropod dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, actually had thin, lizard-like lips that hid their sharp, serrated teeth. Tyrannosaurus rex bellowing with its mouth shut, like a vocalising alligator. With its mouth closed, all of the enormous teeth of T. Rex would be invisible behind its lips. (Credit: Mark Witton) Theropod Teeth The paleontologists and paleoartists who are tasked with depicting dinosaurs have long deliberated about the appearance of the theropods. While some have suggested that these predatory dinosaurs had lizard-like lips that covered and concealed their teeth, others have suggested that they lacked lips, exposing their teeth in a terrifying, snaggletoothed snarl. "Dinosaur artists have gone back and...

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four lined tree frog :: Article Creator Croydon Woods Has Earned Awards For Environmental Stewardship. It's A Superfund Site From Philly and the Pa. Suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! For more than 30 years, Connie Storz has kept an eye on an 80-acre parcel of woods next to the Keystone Elementary School in Croydon, Bucks County. As a school administrator, she had an interest in what was going on in Croydon Woods. "This used to be a complete trash dump," Storz said, walking through Croydon Woods Nature Preserve recently when its bare trees were beginning to emerge from winter. "A lot of homeless, a lot of kids partying back here, and there was a lot of quad riding," she said. "That was probably the worst, kids riding their quads back here. And motorcycles." WHYY thanks our sponsors — b...

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- June 27, 2024

goby fish :: Article Creator Precautionary Measures Initiated Following Detection Of Invasive Round Goby Fish DNA found at Champlain Canal's second lock in Halfmoon triggers extra monitoring By Zachary Matson A positive detection of invasive round goby DNA north of the Champlain Canal's second lock in Halfmoon triggered additional monitoring and changes to canal operations as a precaution, state officials announced Friday. State and federal agencies have been working to monitor the invasion front of round goby, which are native to the Caspian and Black seas and have spread broadly throughout the Great Lakes after being introduced sometime around 1990. Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey collected the environmental DNA (eDNA) samples this month, finding a single positive detection above Lock C-2 near Mechanicville, where the canal coincides with the Hudson River. The eDNA method identifies residual genetic material in air, so...

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- March 28, 2024

zoo med tortoise house :: Article Creator Giant Tortoise Shell To Find Home In Zoo's Natural History Museum Hyderabad: Chanakya, the 125-year-old Giant Galapagos tortoise which breathed its last in the city Nehru Zoological Park, will be remembered by the zoo with authorities deciding to keep on display its carapace in the zoo's natural history museum. The tortoise died on March 16. Chanakya's carapace – the hard outer shell – will be cleaned and placed on display at the museum, zoo curator Dr Sunil S. Hiremath has said. The rest of the remains of the zoo's longest inhabitant, were incinerated after the post-mortem that showed that the animal had died of natural causes resulting from multiple organ failure. The tortoise's shell had not only weathered a span of three centuries during Chanakya's life time, but also shenanigans in 2015 by a 24-year-old man, Fazal Shaik, who jumped into its enclosure, climbed on the...