Critters consuming species that harbor deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way.

Nature's deadliest creatures employ distinct defense mechanisms. Venomous animals inject toxins through bites or stings, like cobras and jellyfish. Po ...

Panama City, Dec 30 (EFE).Panama City, Dec 30 (EFE). — About 100 poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) are on exhibit at a hotel by the Panama Canal, where visitors can admire the tiny, brightcolored ...

Researchers have identified a protein that may help a poison dart frog collect toxins from food and transport them to the frog’s skin, Erin Garcia de Jesús reported in “How poison dart frogs hoard ...

Researchers have identified a new species of poison-dart frog, Ranitomeya hwata, in the remote bamboo-forest of Alto Purus ...

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating due to their different behavioral profiles: They successfully reproduce with different ...

Studying neotropical poison dart frogs, biologists at the University of Texas at Austin uncovered a new way that the frog species can evolve to look similar, and it hinges on the way predators learn ...

If you were viewing a list of the world’s most poisonous animal species, you’d be hard-pressed not to see a poison dart frog on it. Although they’re small, just 2 inches fully grown, they contain ...

SCRANTON – Down a stark hallway and around a corner, Vincent Farallo, Ph.D., swipes his card and opens the door to a research lab at the University of Scranton. Nearly 70 poison dart frogs sit in ...

Snakes are smarter than most give them credit for and a new study published in the ecoevorix journal only reinforces that. What they found was Amazonian ...

“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 ...