There are about 120 species of frogs belonging to the genus Phyllobates, including the posion dart frog, that can secrete a ...

Beautiful but deadly: the perfect words to describe the poison dart frog. These amphibians gain their striking name from the toxin contained in their skin. A single frog could take down several ...

Curare [kyoo-RAW-ree], for example, is found on the skin of colorful poison dart frogs. Another special feature of most amphibians is their egg-larva-adult life cycle. The larvae are aquatic and ...

But don't get down on yourself for not being as cute as a poison dart frog or as stunning as an Arctic fox. There are reasons why these critters are so gorgeous — most have to do with evolution.

Many species of frog are known to be poisonous, such as the often colourful poison dart frogs. But although incredibly rare, there are species that are venomous too. There are currently only two ...

But it is not enough to save some animals from the threat of extinction: the red panda, thick-billed parrot, and blue poison dart frog are three icons of the world’s endangered color.

A third reason is that frogs have the most extraordinary chemicals in their bodies that can be of huge importance to human medicine. One example is a group called the ‘poison dart’ frogs - so ...

While other families of frogs, such as poison dart frogs, are famous for being toxic, this frog’s comparatively mild poison was not enough to ward off this spider. Javier is a Spanish biologist and ...

At the museum they suddenly realise that one of the poison arrow frogs has escaped from its cage Panic Everyone is terrified because the poison arrow frog is one of the worlds most poisonous ...