CUNDINAMARCA, COLOMBIA — Ivan Lozano recalls the night the phone rang. It was the Colombian police one Sunday in 1998, and they had some strange news. Two suspicious boxes had been discovered at El ...

You don’t want to mess with the golden poison frog, aka the poison dart frog. Its cute appearance belies deadly physiology. Just one of these tiny critters (scientific name: Phyllobates terribilis) ...

Poison dart frogs have an ominous and well-deserved reputation as a lot of death stuffed into a teeny, neon package, and none is more dangerous than Colombia’s golden poison frog (Phyllobates ...

The golden poison dart frog looks harmless — small, brightly colored, and no larger than a light bulb. But it is one of the ...

Resplendent with its blue stripes and golden legs, this newly described poison dart frog may look imposing, but it is only about the size of a thumbnail, measuring just 14 to 17 millimetres from the ...

You know those poison darts in Raiders of the Lost Ark and other exciting adventures that use indigenous tribal people as scary bogeyman? The darts used by the ...

Vibrant frogs, often seen in nature documentaries, use their striking colours as a survival tactic. From the Red-Eyed Tree Frog's startling gaze to the Golden Poison Frog's potent warning, these ...

They shine in vibrant red, rich blue, or bright green—and with spots, stripes, or patches, they resemble small works of art by nature. But what appears so striking holds a surprising detail: The ...

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 ...