by Susan | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Oscars are coming on Sunday, and one of the movies up for best documentary, Gasland, has a scene in which a woman goes down to her local creek and discovers that after fracking wells had been dug on her land, animals, including rabbits, birds, frogs, began dying....
by Susan | Feb 18, 2011 | Animal Die-Offs 2011, Chemicals in the Environment, Environmental Health, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, we wrote a post about the unusual mass die-offs of animals that have been occurring since the beginning of this year. While writing this post, we had to wade through a lot of strange stories to try and get to the truth, including a few conspiracy...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2011 | Frog fun
ROSES ARE RED Frogs Are Green!
by Susan | Feb 9, 2011 | Amphibian research, Frogs and Medicine, Uncategorized
We recently came across a fascinating article in Nature News, “Frogs and Humans Are Kissing Cousins.” You might be surprised to learn that you have a whole lot more in common with frogs than you thought—at a genetic level, anyway. The gene order of the Western Clawed...
by Susan | Feb 4, 2011 | Frog posters, FROGS ARE GREEN Top 10 LISTS, Frogs in Sports, Odd frog stories, Uncategorized
At this time of the year, while frogs and toads are deep in hibernation (in our part of the world anyway), our Google alerts for frog news are full of stories about Horned Frogs, not the frog species, but rather the sports teams. Not being much of a sports fan, I...
by Susan | Jan 26, 2011 | Frog-O-Sphere, Frogs as Pets
We were happy to learn that Brookstone has decided to remove the Frog-O-Sphere kit from its shelves. In previous posts we’ve blogged about why we were against this product. Others have protested against the kits as well, most notably PETA, which organized...
