Apex predators may be built for offense, but prey animals like hoverflies, butterflies, scarlet king snakes, and poison dart frogs have evolved remarkable defenses, using mimicry, transformation, and ...

Bright colours in the wild usually mean one thing– danger. And for some frogs, those colours are their way of warning others to stay away. These small, colourful frogs may look adorable, but their ...

Green and Black Poison Frog Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute This media is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this ...

The skin of the Ecuadorian poison frog Epipedobates anthonyi contains the potent nicotinic agonists epibatidine (1) and N-methylepibatidine (3). In addition, a condensed tetracyclic epibatidine ...

Dye-making industry is based on chemistry and processes designed more than a century ago, some of which are very energy consuming and potentially dangerous for the workers. In order to prevent ...

He and is colleagues used the tracker pants to study the spatial skills of three frog species that range from three to five centimetres in length — diablito poison frogs in Ecuador, and ...

The poison dart frog, with its dazzling array of colors, seems like nature’s own jewel. However, beneath their vibrant exterior lies a serious warning to potential predators: danger. These distinctive ...