Darkness stretched across the mountains of northern Peru, coaxing a golden-eyed creature out of its hiding place. It perched on a leaf and made a “peep-like” sound. Suddenly, a beam of light cut ...

Poisonous birds contain far less toxin than the golden poison frog, which carries enough batrachotoxin ... samples as possible” from different parts of the island and screen them for batrachotoxin.

Throughout South America, frogs of the Ranitomeya genus typically occupy very particular habitats. It has been over a decade since a new species within this genus was discovered, making this a ...

Concealed behind the lush jungle, two small frogs were noticed—not by size, but by colours and sounds. Two poison dart frogs were new to science. They were found along the Brazil-Peru border of ...

In their study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the group ventured deep into the rainforest to learn more about species that live in still-isolated parts of the jungle. Despite ...

A new species of poison dart ... milliseconds. The frog was discovered in the Juruá River basin. The surrounding western Brazilian Amazon remains one of the least sampled parts of the entire ...

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 ...

The golden poison frog, in particular ... things can spiral into seizures or respiratory trouble. They live across parts of North Africa and the Middle East and come out at night, after hiding ...

Bright and beautiful, the golden poison frog from Colombia is also incredibly deadly ... Found in tide pools in Australia and parts of Asia, it carries tetrodotoxin, a poison that can paralyse muscles ...

They were poison dart frogs, and they were unlike any others the expedition team had seen before. Jet back with metallic turquoise-green stripes and orange “chrome” limbs, these frogs were ...