Fifth graders at Jackson Academy recently got a hands-on look at anatomy and biology through a classic science rite of passage: the frog dissection. Working carefully through each step, students ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn't this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom ...

Being a vegetarian (or pescetarian, if you will), I tried my hardest to get out of dissecting frogs during biology classes. Had I been born 10 years later, I could’ve cut up virtual amphibians on an ...