— -- One of the deadliest frogs in the world just got a little breathing room. A new 124-acre nature reserve in the South American nation of Colombia has been created to provide sanctuary to the ...
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You don’t want to mess with the golden poison frog, aka the poison dart frog. Its cute appearance belies deadly physiology. Just one of these tiny critters (scientific name: Phyllobates terribilis) ...
The skin of the golden poison dart frog, Phyllobates terribilis, secretes a deadly poison that might lead to a better understanding of how to treat malfunctions of the human nervous system. (Tambako ...
Touching a wild golden poison frog could kill you within minutes: in fact, a single golden poison frog, whose Latin name Phyllobates terribilis is even more evocative than its common one, is capable ...
Poison dart frogs have an ominous and well-deserved reputation as a lot of death stuffed into a teeny, neon package, and none is more dangerous than Colombia’s golden poison frog (Phyllobates ...
If you were viewing a list of the world’s most poisonous animal species, you’d be hard-pressed not to see a poison dart frog on it. Although they’re small, just 2 inches fully grown, they contain ...
You know those poison darts in Raiders of the Lost Ark and other exciting adventures that use indigenous tribal people as scary bogeyman? The darts used by the Emberá people in the Colombian rain ...
As promised, here are photos of the Campaña poison frogs currently on view as part of the phenomenal Frogs: A Chorus of Colors show at the American Museum of Natural History. Earlier this week we ...
The endangered golden poison arrow frog Phyllobates terribilis lives in the rain forests along the northern Pacific coast of Colombia. Its skin contains batrachotoxin, a lethal poison that prevents ...
The golden poison dart frog is about an inch long and banana yellow. By some estimates, the skin of one little frog contains enough toxin to kill 10 adult men. "Oh yeah, it's one of the more lethal ...