Some frogs are poisonous because of what they eat, not because they produce poison themselves. In the wild, certain brightly ...

Some frogs are poisonous because of what they eat, not because they produce poison themselves. In the wild, certain brightly colored frogs feed on specific ants that contain toxic chemicals called ...

In a rainforest, small animals survive by hiding. By blending in with their environment until danger passes, many unique ...

An experiment found that white-striped frogs were less effective at scaring off predators than frogs with yellow stripes. Yet both populations are thriving. By Veronique Greenwood The fanciful colored ...

AUSTIN, Texas--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 ...

Diversity is a hallmark of life and it shows up in unexpected places. A multi-national team of evolutionary biologists investigated how two types of poison frog co-exist when we expect only one. Their ...

Poison frogs living in human care aren’t poisonous, thanks to a “detox” diet of mild insects, like crickets and fruit flies. Can adding alkaloids to a frog’s diet help it regain its toxins and get its ...

A team of zoologists at Goethe University Frankfurt, in Germany, working with a colleague from Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, in Colombia, has found evidence that some species of poison frogs ...

From the brightly colored poison frogs of South America to the prehistoric-looking newts of the Western US, the world is filled with beautiful, deadly amphibians. Just a few milligrams of the newt’s ...

Toxic frogs with weak defenses persist in the gene pool alongside stronger competitors. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 11, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 09 / 190902181543.htm ...