Poison frogs dress in hometown colors

Monday, November 21, 2011 - 20:00 in Biology & Nature

The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why individuals in a single species of frog can sport so many different colors and patterns.

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