Subscribe for FREE Researchers have successfully optimized AAVs for amphibians, allowing detailed tracking of neural development during the metamorphic transition from tadpole to adult frog. This ...

While searching for dinosaur fossils in Argentina, paleontologists accidentally discovered the fossil of a giant ancient ...

The researchers developed a new method that uses adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to track a frog’s nervous system throughout its metamorphosis—a developmental transition from the early tadpole stages ...

It's thought to be the tadpole of the Jurassic frog Notobatrachus degiustoi, a now-extinct amphibian that is the most well known from the era. Like anurans (frogs and toads) alive today ...