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By Elizabeth Landau Faster than Gene Kelly tap-dancing in the rain, many species of poison dart frogs tap their middle toes on their hind feet so rapidly it can look like a blur. Look at that toe go.

Poison? What poison? Some bacteria may treat the powerful toxins bathing poison dart frog skin like a buffet. The alkaloid chemicals that poison dart frogs wield on their skin increase the variety ...

Resplendent with its blue stripes and golden legs, this newly described poison dart frog may look imposing, but it is only about the size of a thumbnail, measuring just 14 to 17 millimetres from ...

Scientists have described a minuscule species of poison dart frog in a remote river basin in the Amazon 1. The species might be monogamous, a rarity in frogs. Alexander Tamanini Mônico at the ...

The new frog, like most poison dart frogs, is tiny, just 15 mm long. It also represents the first new species to be added to the genus in 10 years. The team noted that the frogs were generally ...

Researchers soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Ranitomeya aetherea, or the heavenly poison dart frog. Several views of a Ranitomeya aetherea, or heavenly poison dart frog.