Poison Dart Frog Poison dart frogs are dangerous , but surprisingly, they still make good pets. It’s easy to become mesmerized by the beautiful colors of these amphibians.

Blue Poison Dart Frog. You wouldn’t want to run into a poison dart frog ... Betta fish (Betta splendens) make great pets, allowing you to observe the beautiful blue fins anytime.

More than 5,000 people in New Jersey — including about 1,000 at the Shore — are registered owners of exotic pets, ranging from ferrets and parrots to chinchillas and poison dart frogs.

An example of an oophaga pumilio, also known as the strawberry poision dart frog. Houstonians have lots of pets, and that goes way beyond the dogs and cats that most commonly live with us. Reptile ...

The hard part is getting to them before they’re gone. Deforestation, climate change, increasingly frequent wildfires, and pet trade poaching all threaten poison dart frogs.The frogs of these two ...

Strawberry poison dart frog or Oophaga pumilio. This frog is about 17 to 24 millimeters in size. It has a strawberry red color that merges into shades of blue, black, white, green, yellow, or orange.

The researchers observed colorful dyeing poison dart frogs tapping up to 500 times per minute, or more than three times as fast as Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” Image Dyeing poison frogs ...

The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining ...

As a group, poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) host an assortment of more than 500 poisonous compounds called alkaloids that the amphibians acquire from a steady diet of insects (SN: 9/3/03).