The golden poison frog of Colombia packs enough toxin in its skin to kill ten grown men, yet it produces none of that poison itself. Like other poison frogs, it harvests alkaloids from the ants and ...

Poison frogs are small and brightly colored amphibians that originate from Central and South America. As suggested by their ...

A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: it wiped out established tumors in mice with a single treatment. The ...

When 8-year-old Ava Calsbeek spotted some wood frog eggs in a pond near her family’s home in Hanover, she noticed they were black on one side and white on the other. Ava showed her dad, Ryan Calsbeek, ...

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Scientists test a new approach to protecting frogs from the deadly fungal pathogen Jennifer Zoon For decades, scientists have wondered whether the key to saving frogs from the deadly chytrid fungus ...