From the Washington Post, sad amphibian news: Frogs, toads and salamanders continue to vanish from the American landscape at an alarming pace, with seven species — including Colorado’s boreal ...

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Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born ...

meaning their diet consists mostly of small insects and arthropods. The frogs get their toxins from the food they eat — mainly ants, beetles and mites that carry certain alkaloids. The frogs ...

Poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) gather and concentrate toxic alkaloids in their bodies from certain poisonous insects and other ... first evidence of bacteria eating toxic alkaloids, she says ...