A vibrant blue poison dart frog, *Ranitomeya aetherea*, has been identified as a new species in the western Amazon.

They spend their days perched on these plants or foraging in the nearby leaf litter, likely eating the toxic insects that ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

Researchers identified a new poison dart frog species in the Amazon which has bright blue stripes on a darker body with copper-colored legs.

The tiny amphibian, observed in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon, is the first such discovery in a decade.

known for its sky blue stripes on a brick red body. Both species measure roughly about 15 to 17 millimetres, about the diameter of a dime, making them among the tiniest poison dart frogs ever ...

Resplendent with its blue stripes and golden legs, this newly described poison dart frog may look imposing, but it is only about the size of a thumbnail, measuring just 14 to 17 millimetres from ...

Researchers soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Ranitomeya aetherea, or the heavenly poison dart frog. Several views ... Several “sky-blue” stripes run down its back, and its ...

With its bright blue body mottled with black, the cobalt poison dart frog is hailed as a “jewel of the rainforest” for its beauty. However, as its name suggests, such frogs in nature possess a ...

Not the kind you’ll find on a piece of jewelry, though – these ones come in the form of a brand-new, teeny tiny, and super shiny species of poison dart frog ... and chrome blue-green stripes.