Researcher Dr. Sathyabhama Das Biju and his team at the University of Delhi have been able to capture video footage of the newly-discovered purple frog.  This frog is rarely seen above ground, so capturing any footage of this frog is obviously quite difficult.

This is a funny frog.  As you will see in the footage, it has a tiny head, runs instead of hops, and sounds more like a dog than a frog.   In fact, it seems to look more like a penguin than a frog!

The purple frog was discovered in 2003 and is considered an endangered species. Read more…

A recent study led by Biologist Jon Barnes of the University of Glasgow in Scotland contrasted the differences in how geckos and tree frogs were able to scale surfaces so easily.  It provides some detailed answers to the classic question, “how do tree frogs climb like that?”

They concluded that why the gecko uses a dry grip that creates a molecular bond between its toe pads and the surface being climbed, a tree frog uses nanopillars, which creates a wet grip with the surface being climbed.

Barnes and his team studied the feet of White’s Tree Frogs with an atomic force microscope to better understand how this is being done.

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