They shine in vibrant red, rich blue, or bright green–and with spots, stripes, or patches, they resemble small works of art ...

Panama City, Dec 30 (EFE).Panama City, Dec 30 (EFE). — About 100 poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) are on exhibit at a hotel by the Panama Canal, where visitors can admire the tiny, brightcolored ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Studying neotropical poison dart frogs, biologists at the University of Texas at Austin uncovered a new way that the frog species can evolve to look similar, and it hinges on the way ...

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of ...

In nature, size is often misleading. Some of the most powerful defences on Earth belong not to large predators, but to ...

Mites — not ants as long believed — appear to be the primary source of toxins used by poison arrow frogs to defend against predators, reports new research published in the early online edition of ...

Question: How do poison dart frogs get their poison? Answer: Great question! Poison dart frogs live in rainforests, and they are some of the most poisonous animals in the world. The tiny golden dart ...

The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie. There's a new trend in the pet world that has nothing to do with cockapoodles, ferrets or Siamese fighting fish. More and more people around the ...

A story of creation is unfolding in the Amazonia exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo involving a lot of TLC by one of the Amazon’s smallest amphibians, the strawberry dart frog. For the first ...