The phantasmal poison frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, is the original source of epibatidine, discovered by John Daly in 1974. Epibatidine has not been found in any animal outside of Ecuador, and its ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Poison dart frogs exhibit extraordinary parental devotion, with males guarding eggs and transporting tadpoles to safe bromeliad nurseries. Females then return to feed their young unfertilized eggs, ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

Don’t let their appearance fool you: Thimble-sized, dappled in cheerful colors and squishy, poison frogs in fact harbor some of the most potent neurotoxins we know. With a new paper published in the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Twelve pairs of poison dart frogs were recently translocated in Panama in a bid to strengthen the species’ chances of survival and provide answers ...

A researcher from Colombia has been looking a how Phyllobates (a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America) can avoid poisoning themselves. A 2010 analysis found that more than 63 ...

Deep in the stillness of the Amazon, researchers discovered new voices. Concealed behind the lush jungle, two small frogs were noticed—not by size, but by colours and sounds. Two poison dart frogs ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Most West Virginians know to look out for venomous snakes, but what about poison frogs? There is one species of poison frog that lives in the U.S., and it can be found in ...