Frogs feature in this story, as you've probably guessed.
Once he had his frogs , Spallanzani set about making them some tight-fitting, waterproof trousers, which you can see.
African clawed frogs , which were used as early pregnancy tests.
Not for the frogs who hip hop on the logs or the fish who jump up in the air or the little tiny things that live
the Budweiser frogs campaign and what's up.
are five frogs sitting on a log four decide to jump down how many are left on
They actually could see the frogs disappearing.
They went out and got the frogs , but they didn't have any place to put them initially.
the common ancestor of modern salamanders and frogs , and of all the other reptiles, and mammals and birds.
So he made some waterproof trousers just for the male frogs , and then he allowed the male and female to mate.
Next, undressing his little frogs , Spallanzani took a couple of drops of semen from inside their trousers and used it to fertilize some fresh eggs.
frog catcher you made her living collecting sacks of live frogs and delivering them to San Francisco's Chinese and French restaurants.
So obstetricians actually used to have tanks these frogs in their office.
You now have naturalized populations of African clawed frogs around the world.
So one theory is that the fungus moved on African clawed frogs .
And so initially, the frogs literally had to be put up at a hotel.
You might be able to see some little golden frogs in those tanks.
And this is one of the few places that the golden frogs exist anymore.
So how do we get tigers and kangaroos and frogs and princes?
So they're not doing very well because most things like frogs and amphibians and toads need both land and water to survive.
because they've gotten rid of the the frogs . We're going to be kissing fewer frogs , and that's going to lead to
Because the golden frog-- and really, all frogs in Panama-- started disappearing in the 1990s.
And they decided to try to get a population of these particularly beautiful frogs and also some other species native to central Panama out
Acorns make oak trees, frog eggs make frogs .
And none of this was obvious at all from what we know about frogs and tadpoles, and their genome.
I wanted to tell stories of how people have used shells, not to make comedy frogs .
But due to the trousers, none of the male frogs ' semen could reach the eggs.
Now, some of these eggs grew into healthy young tadpoles and successfully developed into adult frogs .
And one theory which has not been proved is that it was moved around the world on these frogs called
Wildlife management agencies look at ways to reduce pesticides that harm frogs , mercury that harms fish, dams that harm salmon, etcetera.
And it is important to understand that, in order to understand how it is that frogs and princes and kangaroos and tigers came into existence at all because they did
Well, the reason is, frogs and princes, and pumpkins and coaches are all complicated things.
Coaches, and princes, and frogs , and us, and aardvarks, and dinosaurs are all much too complicated to happen by chance.
They are called Knog frogs ; they're little lights you put on your bike.
So how are salamanders and I'd say amphibians and frogs doing?
So, you know, no Budweiser frogs .
have you been in management meetings where a lot of decisions get made and then there's still Five Frogs on the
And we can see that impact, because if you look at frogs today, you can see that post-asteroid impact, they've kind of...
And we can see that impact, because if you look at frogs today, you can see that post asteroid impact, they've kind of,
So that pattern is now really well documented in the fossil record and the explosion of diversity that we see in things like frogs and birds and mammals.
If we move the various organs of the early embryo, you still get largely normal frogs because every organ will move around in novel paths
So Spallanzani, in order to test whether this was true, designed an experiment using frogs .
You know, it is sort of this thing-- they say in the book they mix the DNA with tree frogs .
And scientists figured out that they were being killed by a fungal disease that had probably, almost certainly, been ferried around the world on frogs
obsessed with David Attenborough and wildlife, and he had collected birds' eggs and salamanders and newts and tadpoles and frogs and things.
And then he did start to come round and was clearly mad as a box of frogs .
Now, I said that nobody believes in supernatural magic, nobody believes in fairies turning pumpkins into coaches, and frogs into princes.
Let's see, three plagues, only three plagues, three afflictions Fred: Frogs , boils, locusts, what are they?
For instance, wires for their tires, they look at, you know, frogs ' hands and see
So that pattern is now really well-documented in the fossil record, and the explosion of diversity that we see in things like frogs , and birds, and mammals.