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On a humid night in the mountains of southern China, a “slender”-limbed creature with “burly” fingers emerged from its hiding ...
With striking colors and a resounding croak, the poison dart frogs at the Dakota Zoo are small but mighty. We spoke with ...
High in northern Peru, three frogs no bigger than a thumbprint have stepped out of anonymity and into the scientific ...
We often hear people talking about venomous and poisonous animals, so you’d easily be forgiven for thinking that they mean ...
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 ...
Deep in the misty highlands of northwestern Peru, scientists have uncovered three entirely new species of frogs.
Cane toads in Florida secrete a milky-white toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including ...
The Amazon River is home to some of the most diverse and mysterious wildlife on Earth. Beneath its murky waters lurk strange ...
Green and Black Poison Frog Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ... Object Details Keywords Species: azureus,Genus: Dendrobates,Family: Dendrobatidae,Order: Anura,Class: ...
The study, led by herpetologist Germán Chávez and published in Evolutionary Systematics, describes Pristimantis chinguelas, P. nunezcortezi, and P. yonke—three new species discovered in the ...
The last new species, L. suboliferus, was found in a place called “frog pond” in Kubah National Park, according to the study. The western guardian frog earns its name from the Latin words ...
The last new species, L. suboliferus, was found in a place called “frog pond” in Kubah National Park, according to the study. The western guardian frog earns its name from the Latin words ...