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This page is dedicated to the promotion of scientific literacy and enjoyment with an emphasis on amphibians and reptiles.

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RibbitingScience
@ribbitingscience Sep 16, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

Watching My Frog Eat Its Skin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey4scbsoIxw I caught one of my African Clawed Frogs shedding while doing a water change. Subscribe to my Youtube channel: http://rsci.nl/YT Music: Stevia Sphere – Mall…

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@ribbitingscience Aug 31, 2019, 10:29 AM UTC

Fun with Frogs - What Happens When You Don't Clean a Filter in a Year

Since "raising tadpoles" doesn't make much sense as a title when the tadpoles have long since become frogs, allow me to introduce you to the "Fun with Frogs (& Fish!)" series! I'll be posting spo…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 13, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

How Birds See Colors Differently

Categorical perception is the ability to divide various wave lengths of light into separate groups of color. The concept of blue, red, purple, etc. are examples of this. For years, it was believed th…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 11, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

Lunar Mass Anomaly Found

At roughly 1600 miles, ~2500 kilometers, wide and 8 miles, 13 kilometers, deep, the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in the solar system. Stretching a distance comparable to…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 10, 2019, 10:00 PM UTC

Animal Profiles: Eastern long-necked turtle - (Chelodina longicollis)

The Eastern long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis) is a semi-aquatic, southeastern Australian species. As the name suggests, the Eastern long-necked turtle claim to fame is it's disproportionatel…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 9, 2019, 9:43 PM UTC

Using Scorpions to Make Tumors Glow

A full third of brain tumors are gliomas, a category of tumor that may not respond to chemotherapy or radiation treatment and tend to grow quickly into the surrounding brain tissues. The spindly tend…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 8, 2019, 8:35 PM UTC

Frogs Following in Elephants' Footsteps - Literally

Frogs have been using the puddles created by the footsteps of Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, as safe places to spawn their young. A team of researchers, seeking to examine the impact Asian elephan…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 7, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

Bees First Insects Shown to Connect Symbols & Numbers

Honeybees are the first invertebrates shown to possess the ability to connect man-made symbols with an actual number value. Previously, the ability has been shown in some apes and birds. In order to…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 6, 2019, 6:35 PM UTC

Chemical in Broccoli Sprouts Could Help Treat Schizophrenia Symptoms

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes the patient to not only act erratically, but to have a fundamentally disconnected sense of reality in severe cases of psychotic episodes. Psychosis is a…

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@ribbitingscience Jun 5, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

Killer Shrimp Psychs Out an Ecosystem

When attempting to examine the widespread ecological effects of invasive species, scientists will typically focus on the damage caused by food source competition and active predation of native-born s…

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