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 ...

A story of creation is unfolding in the Amazonia exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo involving a lot of TLC by one of the Amazon’s smallest amphibians, the strawberry dart frog. For the first ...

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 ...