They spend their days perched on these plants or foraging in the nearby leaf litter, likely eating the toxic insects that ...

In the ancient Roman mine underneath Carmona, Spain, researchers discovered a new species of isopod named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis, or the Carmona isopod. This tiny crustacean, with its segmented ...

The frogs are in the Ranitomeya genus and are tiny. All are only 15 to 17 millimetres in length—roughly the size of a dime.

Poison dart frogs are some of nature's most colorful amphibians, with their classic coloration serving as a warning to those ...

Scientists have discovered two new poison dart frog species in the Brazilian Amazon. The frogs belong to the Ranitomeya genus ...

The tiny amphibian, observed in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon, is the first such discovery in a decade.

Researchers identified a new poison dart frog species in the Amazon which has bright blue stripes on a darker body with ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down ...

Esteban Koch at the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus, Brazil, and his colleagues found the frog in the forests of the Juruá river basin in Brazil in 2023 and went back to look ...

Scientists warn that two new species of forest frogs from the Australian rainforest are at high risk of extinction due to ...

Photos show the “long”-legged animals in China, which were scared of flashlights and only appeared on dark and stormy nights.

Intrigued, they captured several of these frogs, took a closer look at them and analyzed their DNA. Researchers soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Ranitomeya aetherea, or the ...