Nature is full of weird specimens. Animals have developed strange, almost supernatural, abilities to hunt and survive. For example, the star-nosed mole can smell underwater. There are species of ...

Photographs supposedly showing a frog with eyes on the inside of its mouth is frequently circulated on social media: We have not been able to source these images, which first went viral in late ...

Frogs have big eyes. But as evident as it is to the casual observer, scientists need actual data to state what seems obvious—and that data didn’t previously exist. And contrary to mammals ...

Bringing clarity to frog eyesight. Building on the previous work of a co-author, eye specialist Professor Ron Douglas, the team shone light through the lenses of 85 frogs and salamanders to measure ...

Discover how frogs see the world. Investigating frog eyesight in the wild. Scientists from the Museum, along with colleagues from the Smithsonian and the University of Texas at Arlington, have set out ...

When light is shined in a frog's eyes it actually puts them in a trance.They will remain still, making it easy for them to be gigged, or stabbed with a long pole. "Some people use broom sticks ...

All this suggests, the researchers say, that frogs' eyes do help them swallow by aiding the tongue in pushing food into the throat, and probably contribute more to the process when their meals are ...