Beautiful but deadly: the perfect words to describe the poison dart frog. These amphibians gain their striking name from the toxin contained in their skin. A single frog could take down several ...

Many species of frog are known to be poisonous, such as the often colourful poison dart frogs. But although incredibly rare, there are species that are venomous too. There are currently only two ...

Curare [kyoo-RAW-ree], for example, is found on the skin of colorful poison dart frogs. Another special feature of most amphibians is their egg-larva-adult life cycle. The larvae are aquatic and ...

There are seven types of amphibian ... Horned frogs are found in South America. They don't actually have horns, but they do have very wide mouths. Poison dart frogs are dangerous.

A third reason is that frogs have the most extraordinary chemicals in their bodies that can be of huge importance to human medicine. One example is a group called the ‘poison dart’ frogs - so ...

So cute, so deadly: A two-month-old poison dart frog, left, and a four-month old relative sit in a terrarium. There are about 120 species of frogs belonging to the genus Phyllobates, including the ...