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

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

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie. There's a new trend in the pet world that has nothing to do with cockapoodles, ferrets or Siamese fighting fish. More and more people around the ...

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 ...

“The environment ministry along with the airport police seized 130 poisonous dart frogs from a Brazilian citizen travelling to Sao Paulo via Panama. These frogs were originally from Narino. The ...

Poison frogs living in human care aren’t poisonous, thanks to a “detox” diet of mild insects, like crickets and fruit flies. Can adding alkaloids to a frog’s diet help it regain its toxins and get its ...

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 ...