This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie. There's a new trend in the pet world that has nothing to do with cockapoodles, ferrets or Siamese fighting fish. More and more people around the ...

Researchers have identified a protein that may help a poison dart frog collect toxins from food and transport them to the frog’s skin, Erin Garcia de Jesús reported in “How poison dart frogs hoard ...

A study uncovers how poison-dart frogs remain resistant to large quantities of the potent toxin stored in their skin glands. The indigenous people of Central America devise blowpipe weapons by daubing ...

Live poison dart frogs will be featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed “Venomous vs. Poisonous,” on Sunday, March 2. The event, free and family-friendly, will take place from 1 ...

A newly identified protein helps poison dart frogs accumulate and store a potent toxin in their skin which they use for self-defence against predators. Scientists have identified the protein that ...

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating due to their different behavioral profiles: They successfully reproduce with different ...

The animal kingdom has no shortage of dance moves, from flamingoes’ synchronized sashays to the waltzes of scorpions. But none are quite like the tap dancing that scientists have observed in poison ...

The 10 snakes faced a tough predicament. Collected from the Colombian Amazon, they had been without food for several days in captivity and then were presented with extremely unappetizing prey: ...

Scientists have identified the protein that helps poison dart frogs safely accumulate their namesake toxins, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings solve a long-standing ...