May 8th, 2008
The Dendrobaters strike again. In 2007, we were lucky enough to find Dendrobates (= Ranitomeya) sirensis. Species account and photos now online!

April 28th, 2008
New species!
New genus!
New accounts and updated photo gallery!

Recently, a paper described Excidobates gen. nov. came out in Herpetologica. This paper also contains the redescription of Adelphobates (= Excidobates) captivus. Also, a paper just recently came out describing a new species of Ameerega from central Peru which was previously confused with A. hahneli.

March 15th, 2008
Almost a year since the last update? Wow. First of all, thanks to all of you that purchased calendars. We have a big trip planned for this coming field season and will need all the support we can get.

We have changed a few things on the site. First, the site has adopted the nomenclature of Grant et al. 2006 despite some initial apprehension. We feel the new taxonomy, although more complex, facilitates communication and brevity. We have re-arranged the species accounts - check out the 'species' section. There is a run-down of the new taxonomy on that page. Also, for the species accounts, we have a link that will take you to a Google Maps page showing the general type locality for the species.

We've also added a few new photos for the following species: Ranitomeya lamasi, R. imitator, R. reticulata, R. uakarii, R. fantastica, Ameerega smaragdina, A. petersi, and A. bassleri.

We have a lot more photos from the 2007 field season that (hopefully) we will get updated in the coming days.

March 25th, 2007
Big news for the Dendrobaters. We rediscovered Dendrobates captivus this past summer, and National Geographic is running a short article about it in their April 2007 issue. Read about the expedition here.

January 15th, 2007
The articles section has been updated with an overview on the current frog-smuggling operations taking place in South America and Europe.

December 13th, 2006
We've made a 2007 calendar which is now for sale. The photos used for this calendar are the product of three years of field work and travel, so its a pretty good deal! Every dime we make off this calendar is going into funding a few expeditions we have planned for the upcoming year. Other miscellaneous updates, we've got a working link to the account for Dendrobates uakarii and somehow managed to track down the description for Dendrobates steyermarki.

November 13th , 2006
Dendrobates.org has been resurrected! We've been hard at work making the new site, and it is much bigger than it was previously. One of our main goals when working on the new site was to give more information regarding conservation and evolution. We also are attempting to accumulate an archive of all dendrobatid original description papers, for now we are focusing on Dendrobates and Epipedobates, though we eventually would like to include many Colostethus as well. We've started posting calls whenever available. Other additions to the site are a video gallery, where we have clips of film we've taken over the past couple years, a photo gallery of other herps, landscapes, and field pictures. And of course, we have a bunch of new species accounts! New additions include Dendrobates vanzolinii, D. lamasi, D. fulguritus, D. mysteriosus, Epipedobates silverstonei, E. parvulus, and E. rubriventris, to name a few. We have also formally created the Dendrobaters Expedition Club, which was busy in 2006 discovering new species and plans to be busy again in 2007 discovering a few more. In an attempt to raise funds for our expeditions, we are now selling photo prints over in the support section. All profits from these sales go to expeditions, of which we have several planned. Eventually these will lead to new discoveries and new species descriptions, so if you have an interest in poison frogs, please help us out!

December 28th, 2005
Sea McKeon has contributed information and photos covering much of southeastern Peru, including Manu National Park and Epipedobates macero, E. simulans, and Dendrobates biolat. Much of this information was used with permission from “Amphibians and Reptiles of Southeastern Peru”. Photos and information on the white-banded D. fantasticus and Atelopus tricolor have been added as well.

December 13th, 2005
The 'epipedobates' page now includes photos of dendrobatids from southern Peru (E. macero, E. simulans, and E. smaragdinus), with information and habitat photos coming soon from a collaborator working in the region.

November 4th, 2005
The Huallaga Canyon D. imitator have been added to the 'dendrobates' page.