Despite its tiny size, the blue poison dart frog commands attention, looking like a vivid splash of paint against the lush green forest floor. Flying through the Central and South American jungles, ...

When observed by the scientists, the animals were paired up, suggesting that they are monogamous, which is extremely unusual ...

Sky blue, ocean blue, blueberries, my eyes! Despite seeing blue all around us, blue is actually the least common color in ...

It’s the same substance found in certain poison dart frogs halfway round the world. Since then, at least a dozen other avian species, out of more than 10,500 known to science, have been ...

Small but deadly, these colourful frogs carry skin toxins that can paralyse or kill. Just one can contain enough poison to kill 10 people. This invasive species secretes milky toxins from its ...

Interestingly, these mutations are different from those in poison dart frogs, meaning the birds developed this resistance on their own. This is an example of convergent evolution, where different ...

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a source of scientific mystery. The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird ...

The deep learning, computational methods for developing these ... Jan. 10, 2025 — The way cricket frogs move across the surface of water has long been thought to resemble walking on water ...

If you’ve recently seen a peacock wandering around near Thatcher Avenue, it’s not an escapee from the Pueblo Zoo. Zoo officials stated in an April 29 Facebook post that the bird is not a zoo ...

The spies also targeted a UK-based Kremlin critic whom they discussed killing with a poison dart fired from a drone, a Kazakhstani former politician, and a Russian lawyer whom they planned to ...