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Animals

Animal care guides and how to videos showing demonstrations, safety tips and storage are at your fingertips to help you take care of the animals your purchase for your next biology lab course.

Xenopus laevis African Clawed Frog

Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog is originally from southern Africa. It inhabits shallow ponds or lakes with warm, stagnant water. This amphibian is entirely aquatic with olive-brown to grayish-black dorsal coloration. Always treat live organisms with respect and proper care. For student and frog safety, minimal handling is recommended. Do not release any animals into the wild.

Caring for Xenopus Frogs

Flinn Dissection Photo Guides, FB1915

Flinn Dissection Photo Guides help make visualizing dissection easier for students.

Flinn Dissection Guides, FB1914, etc.

Flinn Dissection Guides make dissection simple and educationally beneficial and provide maximum comprehension for both middle school and high school students.

Preserved Material

Preserved Material discusses how Flinn's preserved materials are collected and preserved. Flinn has a wide variety of preserved materials for meaningful dissection labs.

How to Anesthetize Drosophila

How To Anesthetize Drosophila demonstrates how to anesthetize Drosophila for studying in genetics classes.

How to Prepare Drosophila Media

How To Prepare Drosophila Media demonstrates how to properly prepare media for Drosophila cultures.

Caring for Xenopus Frogs

The African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, are robust amphibians often used in laboratory studies. Learn proper set up and care for these valuable specimens!

Painted Lady Butterflies in the Classroom

Instead of talking to your students about metamorphosis, show it to them using painted lady caterpillars!

Minks Versus Cats

We often receive questions from customers about the differences between minks and cats for dissection. Here are a few key differences.

Drosophila Mutations and Equipment

Drosophilia Mutation Cultures shows that whether you are planning to perform a monohybrid cross, back cross, or sex-linked cross, Flinn Scientific carries everything you need to perform successful Drosophila experiments.

Tips for Hatching Chicks

Tips for Hatching Chicks is a Flinn Biology Minute that provides some helpful hints for a successful hatch.

Caring for Daphnia

Caring for Daphnia is a Flinn Biology Minute that provides tips to help maintain healthy, active cultures of Daphnia.

Fruit Fly Genetics Simulation

Fruit Fly Genetics Simulation is a Flinn Biology Minute that explains the educational benefits of using a Fruit Fly Genetics Simulation, which can be done without the hassle of time constraints needed for Drosophilia genetic crosses.

Trapping & Transferring Fruit Flies

Trapping and Transferring Fruit Flies is a Flinn Biology Minute that shows how a small plastic funnel can make working with fruit flies easier. You’ll have fewer flies flying loose around the classroom!

Termite Tricks for the Classroom

Termite Tricks for the Classroom is a Flinn Biology Minute with a surprising revelation about termite behavior that is sure to fascinate your students.

Why Your Pill Bugs are Going Toward the Light

Why Your Pill Bugs are Going Towards the Light is a Flinn Biology Minute that explains how even when pill bugs don't do what you expect, their atypical behavior provides a terrific teaching opportunity.

Prevent Contaminated Drosophila Cultures

Prevent Contaminated Drosophilia Cultures is a Flinn Biology Minute with easy tips that will help you keep culture vials free of contamination.

Teaching Dissection Safety

Teaching Dissection Safety is a Flinn Biology Minute that provides tips for showing students how to use dissection tools safely and suggestions for safer tools to use while dissecting.

Storing Dissection Equipment

Storage Dissection Equipment provides helpful hints for cleaning and storing used and messy dissection equipment from labs at the end of the school year in this Flinn Biology Minute.

Instructions for Use of the CO2 Drosophila Anesthetizer

Culturing Tardigrades (Water Bears)

Water bears are a fascinating, and quite adorable, microorganism. Use the Culturing Tardigrades Guide to learn about what they like to eat as well as their ideal temperature conditions and media requirements.

Anole (American Chameleon) Care Guide

Green anoles are also known as “American Chameleons” because of their ability to change colors from brilliant greens to shades of brown. They are relatively hardy, inexpensive to obtain, diurnal and quite docile. These features makes them a favorite pet and an ideal addition to any classroom. Anoles are native to the southeastern United States, ranging from the gulf coast states to Oklahoma. In the wild, they occupy habitats of bushes, trees less than 15 feet tall and rock walls or woods around houses. Anoles are strict insectivores and feed on crickets, grasshoppers, grubs, spiders and moths. Males can be territorial and should not be housed with other males. The average life span of an anole is three to five years, but with excellent care and nutrition, seven to ten years is common.

Grass Frog Care Guide

Grass frogs, also called northern leopard frogs, range naturally throughout most of North America, except for the Pacific coast. They tend to stay near ponds or marshes, but can be found wandering into well-covered grasslands to search for food. Grass frogs are typically greenish-black in color with an array of irregularly-shaped dark spots on their backs and legs. The belly tends to be pearly-white in color and lacks spots. They average 3–5 inches, nose to rump, with females being larger than males. They enjoy feeding on all types of small invertebrates with the occasional vertebrate: beetles, ants, flies, worms, smaller frogs, birds and even garter snakes. An average life span is 2– 4 years in the wild; however, on occasion they can survive 8 or 9 years.

Eastern Newt Care Guide

Eastern newts are a great addition to a life science or biology classroom. As amphibians, they have three unique life stages that include an aquatic larval, a terrestrial juvenile (called an eft) and an adult (newt) stage, when they return to the water. The terrestrial efts range in color from reddish-brown to orange to bright crimson with red spots and black speckles. Adult newts are greenish-brown to yellowish-brown. Depending on region, there may be a row of red spots or incomplete stripes of bright red enclosed with black borders along either side of the body. The belly is lighter in color, often yellow to orange. The entire body is covered in black speckles.

Egg to Chick Care Guide

Watching a baby chick emerge from its egg is a remarkable experience. Hatching chicken eggs is an excellent, hands-on experience that captivates and encourages curiosity in students of all ages while building on important scientific concepts and skills.

Fire-Bellied Toad Care Guide

Amphibians are a great addition to a life science or biology classroom. Brilliantly colored, diurnal and hardy, fire-bellied toads, Bombina orientalis, are an exceptional pet. Amphibian literally means “double life,” as they spend part of their lives in water and part on land. Fire-bellied toads can live up to 12 years in captivity with proper care and maintenance. They are native to northeast China, Korea, southern Japan and Russia, enjoying coniferous forests with broad leaves and slow moving streams or ponds. As omnivores, they feed on plant substances as tadpoles and invertebrates as adults.

Sea Stars (Asteriidae) - Population Ecology and Availability of Specimens

Dissecting sea stars is an exciting, hands-on activity to help students understand structure and function. No doubt many students find dissection one of the most memorable parts of their science experience. Flinn Scientific believes in providing these opportunities while also being responsible stewards of the Earth. For that reason, at times sea stars may not be available for purchase because of shortages in supply.

Lichen Care Guide

Lichen are often mistaken for plants. Actually they are a complex mutualistic symbiotic association between a fungal species and either an algae or cyanobacteria. Lichens are notable as pioneer species in the process of ecological succession and as residents of environments that few other organisms can tolerate. Although they seem to thrive under inhospitable conditions, lichens are highly susceptible to pollution and are often seen as natural indicators of air quality.

Terrarium Care Guide

Terraria are mini ecosystems that contain plants and sometimes small animals. These mini ecosystems are ideal in a classroom as a visual reference when studying ecosystems, the water cycle, nutrient cycles, life cycles, and plants. The bog and insectivorous ecosystems are very different from the woodland and desert ecosystems.