Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...

A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

In nature, size is often misleading. Some of the most powerful defences on Earth belong not to large predators, but to ...

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 ...

There’s a species of poison frog called the “strawberry poison frog” or the “blue jeans frog,” depending on who you ask. These frogs are smaller than a quarter, with bright red bodies and navy blue ...

Long Beach residents and visitors alike will soon have a chance to dive into the wild world of amphibians, thanks to a new exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific. The new exhibit, dubbed “FROGS: ...

A group of researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and Stanford University were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Various amphibian species of this ...

They shine in vibrant red, rich blue, or bright green—and with spots, stripes, or patches, they resemble small works of art ...

A team of researchers at UC San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences and Stanford University have uncovered some intriguing clues in the mystery of how some poison birds and frogs evade their ...