A new species of poison dart frog has been discovered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforests host some of the most diverse and complex ecosystems on Earth. In a study published ...
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Toxins found in the skin of poison dart frogs may hitch a ride there via molecular taxicabs. Now, scientists have pinpointed a protein that can give at least some poisons a ride. The protein, dubbed ...
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If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described Jack Tamisiea Museum scientists collected this frog ...
Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum specimen. The frog tied to the official species name turned out to be brown, ...
An international team of scientists announced their recent discovery of a colorful new poison frog in a remote place deep in the Amazon rainforest. Ranitomeya aetherea, a new poison frog species ...