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Xenopus is one of the premier model systems to study cell and developmental biology in vivo in vertebrates. Here we briefly review how this South African frog came to be favored by a large community of scientists after the explosive growth of molecular biology and examine some of the original discoveries arising from this sturdy frog. Experimental embryology started in Rana but developed in newt embryos for historical reasons. A long lineage of mentorship, starting with Theodor Boveri, Hans Spemann, Fritz Baltzer, Ernst Hadorn, and