A recent feature by The New York Times examined the rise in popularity of the kambo wellness detox, a practice that involves “detoxifying” the system by applying the poisonous secretion of an ...

Scientists have finally managed to record the ear-piercing screams that a frog in the Amazon rainforest makes to defend against predators. It’s the first reported case of the use of ultrasound by an ...

This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today: part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon rain forest. In this episode, we’re going into the dark. Make ...

A tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...

Biological resources from plants and animals have long been used by Indigenous communities for medicinal and therapeutic purposes. Western science is quickly catching on, but in the process of ...

Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he came ...

Venom from an Amazonian tree frog can cause diarrhea and heart palpitations -- but fans claim that it can cure everything from anxiety to migraines. Getty Images/iStockphoto Silicon Valley executives ...

The people of Peru’s Comunidad Nativa Tres Esquinas have long known about a tiny, burrowing frog with a long snout; one local name for it is rana danta, “tapir frog” for its resemblance to the ...

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