Poison arrow frogs, or poison dart frogs, are found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. Despite their ...

They spend their days perched on these plants or foraging in the nearby leaf litter, likely eating the toxic insects that ...

The tiny amphibian, observed in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon, is the first such discovery in a decade.

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

The frogs are in the Ranitomeya genus and are tiny. All are only 15 to 17 millimetres in length—roughly the size of a dime.

A newly described poison dart frog, which is about the size of a thumbnail, has been found in the forests of the Juruá river ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

Researchers soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Ranitomeya aetherea, or the heavenly poison dart frog. Several views of a Ranitomeya aetherea, or heavenly poison dart frog.