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 ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads are safe to eat and which are poisonous? A fringe-lipped bat zeroes in ...

Poisonous birds contain far less toxin than the golden poison frog, which carries enough batrachotoxin to kill 10 grown men. The hooded pitohui—the most toxic avian species—isn’t lethal when ...

Poison frogs exhibit one of nature’s most fascinating adaptations through the acquisition and use of chemical defences. These amphibians predominantly obtain potent alkaloid toxins not via ...

We often hear people talking about venomous and poisonous animals, so you’d easily be forgiven for thinking that they mean ...

Cane toads in Florida secrete a milky-white toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including ...

Golden poison frog. Image via Unsplash The golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis) holds the distinction of being the most poisonous vertebrate on Earth. Native to the Pacific coast of Colombia, ...

Adventure Aquarium in Camden opened a new 2,000-square-foot exhibit called Kaleidoscope Cove. The exhibit features over 100 ...

That includes rare and unusual species are grouped by “shared visual language ... Visitors can expect to see flashlight fish, ...

Hummel says being bitten by a copperhead felt like a deep wasp sting. His hand immediately swelled up and began to change ...