Researchers suspect that these frogs have highly specific habitat preferences and territorial boundaries, suggesting that they may have a very restricted distribution.This tendency to focus on ...

As the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon is home to a staggering 3 million species. And a team of researchers just published their discovery of one more. In 2023, Evan Koch — a ...

Two poison dart frogs were new to ... The second, Ranitomeya aetherea, has sky-blue bands on a red colour. Their colours led to them being called "metallic poison frog" and "heavenly poison ...

Scientists have discovered two new poison dart frog species in the Brazilian Amazon ... The other is Ranitomeya aetherea, with sky blue stripes. These tiny frogs face threats from deforestation.

Researchers soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Ranitomeya aetherea, or the heavenly poison dart frog. Several views ... Several “sky-blue” stripes run down its back, and its ...