Native tribes have used them for their supposedly powerful healing properties. — -- Deep in the Peruvian Amazon lives a giant tree frog that is in high demand for its natural toxins, which people ...

Researchers are now equipped with additional insight into how poisonous frogs may have evolved resistance against their own toxins, thanks to the results of a new study. Neotropical poisonous frogs ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, in a region known as the Manú Biosphere Reserve, Shirley Jennifer Serrano Rojas crouched near a stream. She listened while her audio recorder tracked the noise of the rain ...

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Cuban tree frogs are large frogs that originated in Key West and are typically found in Florida. They have gradually spread to Georgia, particularly in the Savannah, Brunswick and St. Simons areas.

A frog species with a toxic venom injection defense mechanism has been described in the semi-arid northeastern region of Brazil. Carlos Jared, a Brazilian scientist at the Butantan Institute made the ...