The frogs are in the Ranitomeya genus and are tiny. All are only 15 to 17 millimetres in length—roughly the size of a dime.

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered two new poison dart frog species in the Brazilian Amazon. The frogs belong to the Ranitomeya genus ...

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

A newly described poison dart frog, which is about the size of a thumbnail, has been found in the forests of the Juruá river ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

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

Researchers soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Ranitomeya aetherea, or the heavenly poison dart frog. Several views of a Ranitomeya aetherea, or heavenly poison dart frog.