Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...

A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

Scientists at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a mistake that dates back decades ...

Poisonous frogs produce and store alkaloid poisons or toxins in their skin, which makes them harmful to touch. They are commonly called poison arrow frogs or poison dart frogs. This is because Native ...

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 ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Most West Virginians know to look out for venomous snakes, but what about poison frogs? There is one species of poison frog that lives in the U.S., and it can be found in ...

Behavior in response to skin color may be more important than genetics in the evolution of new species of strawberry poison frogs in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Predators keep local frogs in uniform. Upper left: Ranitomeya imitator in the Peruvian lowland. Lower left: a clay model used to quantify predation. Center: cloud forests of the Cordillera Escalera, ...

Colombian researcher Bibiana Rojas says her life changed forever when she got to meet a poison frog in real life – now she studies a range of brightly colored frogs and moths and how they interact ...