A team of researchers at UC San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences and Stanford University have uncovered some intriguing clues in the mystery of how some poison birds and frogs evade their ...

Deep in the Peruvian rainforest, a brilliantly colored frog lays one hand gently on top of a small clump of gelatinous eggs. Using his delicate sense of touch, he’s feeling for the embryos inside.

Three studies have recently explored toe-tapping, which seems to have something to do with frogs preying on insects. By Elizabeth Landau Faster than Gene Kelly tap-dancing in the rain, many species of ...

Long Beach residents and visitors alike will soon have a chance to dive into the wild world of amphibians, thanks to a new exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific. The new exhibit, dubbed “FROGS: ...

A group of researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and Stanford University were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Various amphibian species of this ...

The phantasmal poison frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, is the original source of epibatidine, discovered by John Daly in 1974. Epibatidine has not been found in any animal outside of Ecuador, and its ...

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 ...

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating due to their different behavioral profiles: They successfully reproduce with different ...