An international team of scientists announced their recent discovery of a colorful new poison frog in a remote place deep in the Amazon rainforest. Ranitomeya aetherea, a new poison frog species ...
A new species of poison dart frog has been discovered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforests host some of the most diverse and complex ecosystems on Earth. In a study published ...
A new rarely-found amphibian has been discovered in the western Amazon dazzles with its mesmerising bright-blue body and unusual copper highlights on its limbs that makes it even more appealing and ...
Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...
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The colorful poison dart frogs are named after a toxin that once posed a danger to humans—today, however, they pose no threat ...
It’s not often one hears the phrases “poison dart frog” and “family friendly” in the same description of an event, but the Bohart Museum of Entomology at U.C. Davis insists its upcoming open house ...
Toxins found in the skin of poison dart frogs may hitch a ride there via molecular taxicabs. Now, scientists have pinpointed a protein that can give at least some poisons a ride. The protein, dubbed ...
A Brazilian woman was arrested on charges of wildlife trafficking after police in Colombia discovered 130 poisonous frogs in her luggage. Authorities at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá found ...