From the Washington Post, sad amphibian news: Frogs, toads and salamanders continue to vanish from the American landscape at an alarming pace, with seven species — including Colorado’s boreal ...

meaning their diet consists mostly of small insects and arthropods. The frogs get their toxins from the food they eat — mainly ants, beetles and mites that carry certain alkaloids. The frogs ...

Often starting life as a tadpole eating algae, before morphing into a carnivorous adult, frogs carry energy from aquatic ecosystems onto land — where it can be transferred throughout the food web.

Toxins on poison dart frog skin mold the skin's microbial community, boosting species variety and potentially even feeding some daredevil bacteria.