In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 photo, students dissect a synthetic frog from Syndaver Labs at J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Fla. The school is the first in the world to try out the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — For some students, ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

Dissecting a frog was once a rite of passage for high school students (and sometimes junior high students) across the country. Coming up through the grades you'd hear fellow students talking about it, ...

Biology class is getting a little more humane at one high school in Florida, where high school students have started dissecting realistic man-made frogs instead of the real animals. Nearly 100 ...

When Judie Mancuso was in grade school she opted out of dissecting frogs and other animals. For her the common practice was torture. “I refused to be there, I didn’t want to be part of somewhere where ...

When Nabil Koney dissected a pig during his freshman year of high school, he says the most memorable part of the experience was the smell. That wasn’t a problem when the now senior dissected a ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla.NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — It’s a rite of passage in schools across the U.S.: frog dissection. Sometimes it happens in middle school, sometimes in high school. Feelings about the ...

(CNN) -- For some students, dissecting animals in class can be the highlight of the semester. For others, however, it's cruel and ... maybe kind of gross. But for students at a Florida high school, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — It’s a rite of ...