This one trait enabled toads to spread across the globe
That knobbly bump behind a toad’s eyes turns out to be far more than a weird facial feature. A new study suggests this single organ — called the parotoid gland — was the game-changer that led toads to fan out from South America to almost every corner of the...
Weak magnetic field seems to affect the Earthworm movements
Researchers found that red earthworms crawled far less when the surrounding magnetic field was dialled down to almost zero.
This one trait enabled toads to spread across the globe
That knobbly bump behind a toad’s eyes turns out to be far more than a weird facial feature. A new study suggests this single organ — called the parotoid gland — was the game-changer that led toads to fan out from South America to almost every corner of the...