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How this frog can tell if you're pregnant

How this frog can tell if you're pregnant

Before home tests were available, pregnancy tests involved frogs. Yes frogs!

  • How a pregnancy test caused a catastrophe for frogs, external

  • Read more about the Xenopus pregnancy test, external

Made by The Derek Jarman Lab, originally published on 8 February 2019

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