For years, researchers demonstrated repeatedly that poisonous frogs don’t make their own toxic chemicals. Instead, the scientists found, a frog obtains these skin compounds by ingesting arthropods that contain them.
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Now, researchers of the same group say they’ve found a type of frog that seems to synthesize its own poisons.
Scientists suspect that frogs use skin poisons as