The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...
Could guts save your butt? A new study reports that bacteria found in the intestines of Japanese tree frogs show remarkable promise in treating colorectal cancer. A research team from the Japan ...
A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...
In the gardens and parks of Toyota City, Japan, a small creature turned out to be a new species. Getty Images/iStockphoto To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a ...