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 ...

Some poison dart frogs carry toxins so powerful that tiny amounts can be lethal to humans. The poison is stored in the skin as a defensive weapon, making the frog dangerous even without biting or ...

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 ...

Blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus). The blue poison dart frog is a colorful frog found in the rainforests of Suriname, a country located in the northeastern part of South America. The blue ...

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 ...

A new species of poison dart frog has been discovered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforests host some of the most diverse and complex ecosystems on Earth. In a study published ...

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 predators learn ...

In the eyes of a female poison-dart frog, a red male isn't much brighter than a green one. This does not however mean that the mating behavior of the green and red variants of the same species of frog ...

WASHINGTON — A species of poison dart frog has been hatched in human care for the first time, through the work of Smithsonian scientists. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Smithsonian ...

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It’s not often one hears the phrases “poison dart frog” and “family friendly” in the same description of an event, but the Bohart Museum of Entomology at U.C. Davis insists its upcoming open house ...