San Diego Union-Tribune

Poison dart frogs take up residence at hotel by Panama Canal

Panama City, Dec 30 (EFE).Panama City, Dec 30 (EFE). — About 100 poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) are on exhibit at a hotel by the Panama Canal, where visitors can admire the tiny, brightcolored ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Frogs and toads open way for biomedicines in Ecuador

Quito, May 5 (EFE).Quito, May 5 (EFE). — Toads and frogs are opening the way for biomedicines in Ecuador with an ambitious project to find the medicines of the future in amphibians. The Jambatu Center ...
NPR

The black market endangered this frog. Can the free market save it?

Ivan Lozano Ortega was in charge of Bogota's wildlife rescue center back in the 90s, when he started getting calls from the airport to deal with... frogs. Hundreds of brightly colored frogs. Most of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the ‘Back Door’

In a video taken by ecologist Shinji Sugiura, a tiny aquatic beetle known as Regimbartia attenuata pulls off a death-defying feat to rival Houdini. First, a frog snags the beetle and gulps it down ...