Frogs have a unique skeleton made for jumping that evolved over hundreds of millions of years, new research has shown. Precise control over their long hind legs allows the amphibians to achieve an ...

KUFFLER et al. 1–3 have shown that in the frog there are two very distinct types of skeletal muscle fibres; one, the more common, is capable of generating spikes and giving twitches; while the other ...

3D printing has been used to produce rocket parts, medical implants and even to make art, and now 3D-printable models of anatomical specimens can be added to the list. A cane toad skeleton and part of ...

Genetically, each species were different, but the team also found differences in the skull shapes, the levels of bone formation in the skeleton, and the number of warts on the hands and feet.