Most frogs defend themselves with toxins that sit passively in their skin, but only two species are known to go a step further and actively inject venom into anything that grabs them. These little ...

LiveScience reports the discovery (published Aug. 6 in the journal Current Biology) came with a painful price. Carlos Jared, the study’s lead author, was injured by the Corythomantis greeningi frog’s ...

Yes, there are some very poisonous frogs in the world. But it turns out researchers had no idea how scary some of these frogs were until recently when they discovered frogs that can deliver venom to ...

Some harlequin frogs have lost their poison—and their ability to defend themselves. Scientists are on the case.

Scientists have discovered a new species of poisonous frog—brightly colored and measuring just a few millimeters—in the Amazon, according to a Peruvian government agency in charge of environmental ...

Kobe University ecologist SUGIURA Shinji discovered that the black-spotted pond frog seems to be unharmed and undaunted by venomous stings from hornets such as the Asian giant hornet, the largest in ...

This newly discovered poison frog may represent an evolutionary step on the pathway towards developing brilliant warning coloration associated with other poison dart frogs. A small reddish-brown frog ...

Deep in the Panamanian jungle, conservation biologist Brian Gratwicke and his team hunted a radio transmitter signal that led them to a ferocious-looking whip scorpion in the middle of a meal. Some ...

A remarkable resistance to venom has been discovered in a frog that feasts on hornets despite their deadly stingers. This frog could potentially serve as a model organism for studies on mechanisms ...