Bizarre Beasts
Don’t Grab The Venomous Frogs
2025 • E3 Mar 3, 2025 10m
Plenty of frogs can be poisonous, but Greening’s frog and Bruno’s casque-headed frog use bony spines on their snouts to break the skin of would-be predators and introduce toxins into their attacker’s bloodstream. This makes them the first species of truly venomous frogs that we know of. And they do it via headbutt.
