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

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

Scientists have identifiedtwo new species of poison dart frogs in the remote Brazilian Amazon, shedding light on the hidden biodiversity of this vast rainforest. Published recently in ZooKeys andPLOS ...

They spend their days perched on these plants or foraging in the nearby leaf litter, likely eating the toxic insects that help them build up their own reserves of deadly chemicals. The frogs are named ...

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 basin in Brazil ...

The new frog, like most poison dart frogs, is tiny, just 15 mm long. It also represents the first new species to be added to the genus in 10 years. The team noted that the frogs were generally ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down plants using its “large” hands. Stopping on a leaf, it let out a “cricket-like” ...

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.