A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

The shipments included many songbirds from Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Suriname and endemic reptiles from Mexico and Brazil. Poison dart frogs, sought for their attractive, brightly colored ...

In the creepy crawly world of spiders, this gargantuan South American arachnid cousin has a set of fangs that would make ...

Most of the shipments came from Suriname, Brazil and Mexico ... and they know it’s illegal.” Lehmann’s poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni), native to Latin America, is now a critically endangered ...

The fish contains lethal amounts of the poisonous tetrodotoxin ... but aficionados know to wait until after the third rain of spring, when the frogs start croaking and breeding, to consume them.

Even bringing the imposed gift stipulated by Brazil's Indian agency PENA ... women and otherwise never chastised children to stimulate growth and cure laziness. Frog poison is administered trough ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

In the winter months of eastern Brazil, temporary streams offer a home for a new species of frog. Mângia, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology In the eastern Brazil state of Bahia ...