With green tree frogs croaking like toy tin horns near my home, I'm reminded of a blue-jeans frog I recently watched in Costa Rica. I was standing near a small pool on the grounds of the Costa ...

A few feet away: A radiant blue poisonous dart frog – no bigger than a human thumb but capable of secreting enough poison to kill 10 people. From […] Skip to content. All Sections.

In Colombia, poison dart frogs have been heavily trafficked from the rainforests of the Pacific coast to Europe, North America, and Japan, where they are sold to collectors for up to $2,000 per ...

Blue-and-yellow poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius). Photos by Rhett A. Butler. In recognition of Amphibian Ark winning mongabay.com’s 2011 conservation award, our pictures of the day this ...

The vivid hues of the strawberry poison dart frog declare, “If you eat me, it could be the last thing you ever do!” And that’s no bluff. The one-inch amphibian, ...

For nonpoisonous frogs, the trick to not becoming dinner is to look poisonous — but not too poisonous, new research reveals. Scientists studied three species of poison dart frogs in the Amazon ...

Poison frogs are nearing their limit with climate change and deforestation. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Human body temperature typically hovers close to 98.6 degrees ...

Another tetrodoxtoxin-laced animal pops up in Octopussy, in the form of the blue-ringed octopus. The rough-skinned newt, ... Oophaga pumilio, one of the many ‘poison dart frogs’.