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

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

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 ...

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

Sky blue, ocean blue, blueberries, my eyes! Despite seeing blue all around us, blue is actually the least common color in ...

Article title: A remarkable new blue Ranitomeya species (Anura: Dendrobatidae) with copper metallic legs from open forests of Juruá River Basin, Amazonia ...

They were poison dart frogs, and they were unlike any others the expedition team had seen before. Jet back with metallic turquoise-green stripes and orange “chrome” limbs, these frogs were ...

The dorsal part of their bodies, however, features alternating black and chrome blue-green stripes ... also described the newly discovered poison dart frog as an “Amazonian hidden gem”.

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a ...