Adult individuals of Ranitomeya aetherea sp. Koch et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 Considered one of Earth's most toxic species, poison dart frogs come in a wide range of bright colors ...

Bright colours in the wild usually mean one thing– danger. And for some frogs, those colours are their way of warning others ...

Let's talk about one of the most dazzling — and dangerous — creatures in the animal kingdom: the golden poison dart frog. These tiny amphibians have incredibly toxic skin, and it packs a ...

Strawberry poison dart frog or Oophaga pumilio. This frog is about 17 to 24 millimeters in size. It has a strawberry red color that merges into shades of blue, black, white, green, yellow, or orange.

Hailing from the same tropical rainforests as the poison dart frog, the charismatic red-eyed tree frog represents a rainbow of colors packed into one tiny amphibian body, with its bright green ...

Poison frogs come in a huge variety of very bright colors. While some frogs would use camouflage to hide from predators, the poison dart frog uses its bright skin to warn other creatures that it ...

Poison dart frogs are hard to miss. They’re bright, agile, and as their name suggests, toxic. But at least a few of these showy amphibians have gone under the radar, until now.

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 colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining ...

New species of poison dart frog with metallic turquois stripes and chrome orange limbs discovered in the forest along Eiru River in Brazil’s Amazonas state.

New species of poison dart frog with metallic turquois stripes and chrome orange limbs discovered in the forest along Eiru River in Brazil’s Amazonas state.

New species of poison dart frog with metallic turquois stripes and chrome orange limbs discovered in the forest along Eiru River in Brazil’s Amazonas state.