The hundreds of species of poisonous frogs living in Central and South America, for example, have gained international awareness due to their iconic and spellbinding colors as much as their ...

Beautiful but deadly: the perfect words to describe the poison dart frog. These amphibians gain their striking name from the toxin contained in their skin. A single frog could take down several grown ...

Many species of frog are known to be poisonous, such as the often colourful poison dart frogs. But although incredibly rare, there are species that are venomous too. There are currently only two ...

Curare [kyoo-RAW-ree], for example, is found on the skin of colorful poison dart frogs. Another special feature of most amphibians is their egg-larva-adult life cycle. The larvae are aquatic and ...

Amphibians resist their own chemical defenses with amino acid modifications in the sequence for a target receptor. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students ...

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 ...

The most dangerous thing in these bite-sized forests is not broken glass or chemicals — it’s a tiny, poisonous frog. Epipedobates are species of poisonous frogs found in dry and humid tropical ...

We found a painted ant-nest frog today, a peculiar frog with an incredible natural history. Once thought to be a species ...