How is it that some frogs are able to flush toxins through their bodies that poison would-be predators without causing any harm to themselves? Scientists have pinpointed the mechanism that enables ...

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 ...

Poison dart frogs have an ominous and well-deserved reputation as a lot of death stuffed into a teeny, neon package, and none is more dangerous than Colombia’s golden poison frog (Phyllobates ...

Brightly colored but capable of dark deeds, poison frogs accumulate or generate toxic chemicals that are harmful to predators, but tolerable to the frogs themselves. For example, many poison frogs ...

A group of researchers were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Various amphibian species of this region use ephemeral pools of water as their nurseries, and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A University of Vienna team set out to determine whether A. femoralis had spatial learning capabilities — the ability to learn, recognize and be ...

Florida is often called the state with the most invasive animals, and a few of those are frogs and toads that have settled ...

Driving along a suburban road in Ellicott City, Md., you’d never guess you’d just passed an oasis of South and Central American wildlife. With 500 adult frogs of 20 species — not counting offspring — ...

Strawberry poison frogs live in Costa Rican forests that are being cut down for farmland. The deforested pastures are hotter and sunnier, so scientists wanted to see if the frogs had adapted to ...

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) scientists working as part of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project hatched the ...

Venom from an Amazonian tree frog can cause diarrhea and heart palpitations -- but fans claim that it can cure everything from anxiety to migraines. Getty Images/iStockphoto Silicon Valley executives ...

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 ...