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

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

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

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.

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