The article dissected the distinctions between toads and frogs, highlighting their taxonomic differences, physical traits, and natural habitats. Toads were noted for their warty skin and terrestrial ...

To boldly go ... Cane toads with the personality to boldly go where no cane toad has gone before pave the way for more timid toads to rapidly take over new territories, say Australian researchers.

Cane toads are infamous for wreaking havoc on Australian ecosystems. But, as Peter Aldhous discovers, we're only now about to learn whether their fearsome reputation is deserved. Darwin is bracing ...

African toads that give birth to live young evolved the strategy to cope with mountainous regions lacking suitable areas of water for tadpoles to develop in. An international team of researchers ...

American toads can live almost anywhere, which explains why, on a recent urban nature walk, I spotted one in an industrial area of East Somerville. These toads require only insects to eat, some dense ...

Last year, Cynthia Berger tried for an autumn spinach harvest in her Pennsville, Pa. garden. The pests got there first. “It was slug city,” says Berger. The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned the ...

On two islands in the Indian Ocean, the toads just aren’t what they used to be. Less than a century after their introduction by humans, the islands’ toads have shrunk in size by about a third. The ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A new mockumentary about the invasion of cane toads is both entertaining and informative. IF THERE’S ANYTHING THAT can show the endearing side of a cane toad, then it’s the mockumentary Cane Toads: ...

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