But in 2015, researchers uncovered something extraordinary: two Brazilian frog species that could weaponize their toxic secretions with precision and intent. Their discovery has changed what ...

A Brazilian woman was arrested at an airport in Colombia for allegedly trying to smuggle 130 endangered poisonous frogs in her luggage. The passenger was nabbed with the amphibian contraband at El ...

A new species of poison dart frog was discovered in Colombia in small patches of forest filled with garbage. It’s brown with a yellow stripe.

A new species of poison dart frog was discovered in Colombia in small patches of forest filled with garbage. It’s brown with a yellow stripe.

Adriana Soto, the Bogotá environment secretary, said the woman claimed the tiny Harlequin frogs, just shy of 5cm long, were a “gift” from a local community in southern Colombia.

A new species of poison dart frog was discovered in Colombia in small patches of forest filled with garbage. It’s brown with a yellow stripe.

A new species of poison dart frog was discovered in Colombia in small patches of forest filled with garbage. It’s brown with a yellow stripe.

And it put these endangered frogs at risk of going extinct.Today on the show, how Ivan tried to put an end to the poison frog black market, by breeding and selling frogs legally.

In 1978, researchers studied one species of poison dart frog and found that the alkaloids in its bodies that made them poisonous were so toxic they named the frog Phyllobates terribilis, or the ...