A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

By Shanna Hanbury Scientists in Brazil described a new-to-science species of poison dart frog last year. It was first found among the leaves of wild banana plants on a research expedition to the Juruá ...

An international team of scientists announced their recent discovery of a colorful new poison frog in a remote place deep in the Amazon rainforest. Ranitomeya aetherea, a new poison frog species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This extremely toxic, nicotine-like compound originates from the Epipedobates genus of poison dart frogs, found exclusively in ...

Vibrant but toxic, poison arrow frogs range from less than 1 inch to 2.5 inches in body length. Poison arrow frogs live in the rainforests of Central and South America and on a few Hawaiian Islands.

The phantasmal poison frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, is the original source of epibatidine, discovered by John Daly in 1974. Epibatidine has not been found in any animal outside of Ecuador, and its ...