It took 10 minutes to spot just one strawberry dart frog in the terrarium at the National Zoo, hidden carefully in the folds of a lush green leaf and staring with beady black eyes into the early ...

Richard Lynch, a local botanist, has the most unusual of alarm clocks: He wakens daily to the peculiar sound of amphibian mating calls. Criiick criiick. Ticki-ticki-ticki-ticki! Amorous jungle noises ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie. There's a new trend in the pet world that has nothing to do with cockapoodles, ferrets or Siamese fighting fish. More and more people around the ...

The animal kingdom has no shortage of dance moves, from flamingoes’ synchronized sashays to the waltzes of scorpions. But none are quite like the tap dancing that scientists have observed in poison ...

CUNDINAMARCA, COLOMBIA — Ivan Lozano recalls the night the phone rang. It was the Colombian police one Sunday in 1998, and they had some strange news. Two suspicious boxes had been discovered at El ...