What is dart frog toxin, which is said to have been used to kill Alexei Navalny?

Epibatidine is about 100 times more potent than morphine, and derived from frogs native to South America ...

Eye-Powered Eating: Why Frogs Use Their Sight to Swallow

Frog eyes are distinctive, unique, and fascinating. They are huge, globular, and positioned atop their heads. We know that ...
Meduza

What is epibatidine, and how did it kill Navalny? A guide to the frog neurotoxin that five countries say poisoned Russia’s opposition leader.

The United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands announced that a substance called epibatidine killed Alexey Navalny, the opposition leader who died in a Russian prison in February ...

From frog saunas to medicated baths: Scientists battle a global amphibian plague

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...
Forbes

Russians Once Dipped This Frog In Their Milk Jars—Here’s Why

The European brown frog is also known as the common frog, although its unique abilities make it anything but. Long before we had the luxury of storing milk in refrigerators, households in Russia and ...