Toads have taken over the world - for real. This isn't some horror movie I'm talking about. This is actually happening, people. Don't freak out, but toads have found their way onto six out of the ...

As the planet gets warmer, cane toads — an invasive species that has taken over Australia — will get happier, a new study suggests. The cane toad might be just one of the lucky species expected to ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado ” The endangered boreal toad is finally getting its awareness campaign, as zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums around the world have designated 2008 as the Year of the Frog.

Look for them in the grass, especially near freshly watered lawns and near waterways. At first glance you might think it’s a small bug. New toads start out very small and they can be hard to identify.

In a bold effort to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, one hundred Kihansi spray toads have been flown home to Tanzania after being painstakingly reared at the Bronx Zoo and ...

Toxic toads bound across the northern tropics of Australia faster than ever, thanks to the evolution of longer legs in the few short decades since humans introduced them to their own little paradise.

London, Dec 9: Two biology researchers from UK's Open University have done a study to say that toads can be used to predict earthquakes because certain species are able to sense chemical changes in ...

Toads are an evolutionary success story. In a relatively short span of time, they diversified into around 500 species and spread to every continent except Antarctica. Now, Ines van Bocxlaer from Vrije ...

Learn how three new toad species from Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains evolved to skip the tadpole stage — revealing one of nature’s rarest reproductive strategies. Forget the tadpoles — in Tanzania’s ...

Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard University and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, answers the big question of why setting ...