Eternal Youth Goes Really Dark In The African Clawed Frog
Very occasionally, African clawed frog tadpoles never stop being tadpoles and turn into frogs. They increase in size, and they reach a form of sexual maturity, but they look eternally young. And then things get grotesque. In laboratories, scientists use the Xenopus Laevis, the African clawed frog, as a model to study how a body…
