Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

After getting a few comments perhaps suggesting I might be writing too much on birds, I am switching gears this week to another vertebrate, although these are cold-blooded. While I have a special ...

Don't let their appearance fool you: Thimble-sized, dappled in cheerful colors and squishy, poison frogs in fact harbor some of the most potent neurotoxins we know. With a new paper published in the ...

Frogsicles. Poke through a leaf pile this weekend and you might find one. Sure, it can’t compare to what happened last month during a frigid spell in Florida, when meteorologists warned residents to ...

Over the course of 500 million years, three species of poison frogs evolved to withstand a toxin they use to prevent predators from catching them. But, there’s a catch: the frogs experience a ...

Frogs have been living on this planet for more than 250 million years, and over the centuries, evolved into some of the most wondrous and diverse creatures on earth. Today, however, all their ...

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The phantasmal poison frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, is the original source of epibatidine, discovered by John Daly in 1974. Epibatidine has not been found in any animal outside of Ecuador, and its ...