TOAD, the latest entrant in the memecoin universe, is making headlines for redefining the space with an unconventional mission: to celebrate love, friendship, and human connection. This heartfelt ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

During his sabbatical, Will McGugan, maker of Rich and Textual( frameworks for making Textual User Interfaces (TUI)), put his ...

Sonoran Desert toads use a fascinating defense mechanism against predators—hallucinogenic toxins. But nature has found a way around it. Amphibians are remarkably resilient creatures. In the 300 ...

A record-breaking giant toad has been discovered in Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia. Park ranger Kylee Gray was “shocked” to spot the huge cane toad during a patrol deep in the ...

The masked toad is no ordinary amphibian. Leaving aside its somewhat misleading common name – it takes a bit of imagination to detect, in the black ridges that run between its eyes, the outline of a ...

A viral National Park Service warning about licking toads highlighted the potent psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT found in Colorado River toads. While the compound is psychoactive, licking the toad is ...

For a recent article on the Sonoran desert toad and its psychedelic secretions, a photographer attended a spiritual ceremony to witness the drug’s effect. By Terence McGinley The participants smoked, ...

Cane toads, aka bufo toads, in Florida secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, ...