The Americas is an epic journey across the world’s largest supercontinent, featuring a vast array of plants, animals, and ...

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 ...

The elusive frog Alsodes vittatus has been found after 130 years, emphasizing gaps in knowledge and conservation needs in ...

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 ...

The King Cobra is significantly larger and faster than the Poison Dart Frog. The King Cobra can grow up to 9.8 to 13.1 feet in length and can move at speeds of up to 12.5 miles per hour, making it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...