A “detox” treatment using a drug made from an Amazonian tree frog should be banned, medical experts have said.

A rare frog poison has been named as the cause of Russian democracy fighter Alexei Navalny's 2024 death. But it's unlikely to have come from a frog. A poison found in threatened frog species in the ...

The modern poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish. Precise, deniable, and in Russia’s case, grimly familiar. Accusations of Russian poisoning surfaced again ...

A number of people around the world have died after taking part in an ancient healing practice known as kambo, which involves ingesting frog poison. The spiritual ritual of kambo, which is promoted ...

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 ...

Poisonous frogs produce and store alkaloid poisons or toxins in their skin, which makes them harmful to touch. They are commonly called poison arrow frogs or poison dart frogs. This is because Native ...

Scientists have identified the protein that helps poison dart frogs safely accumulate their namesake toxins, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings solve a long-standing ...

This newly discovered poison frog may represent an evolutionary step on the pathway towards developing brilliant warning coloration associated with other poison dart frogs. A small reddish-brown frog ...