Fans of the platformer Super Mario 3D World will likely recall the clever puzzles featuring Mario's adorable companion Toad. It featured levels where players manipulated the viewing angles to help ...

Humans will do pretty much anything. As evidence of this truth, look at toad sucking. This is not a metaphor. Toad sucking is a real activity, not an urban myth. It is exactly described. You pick up a ...

This isn’t the psychedelic you remember from college. It isn’t an eight-hour marathon experience tripping through the woods like Alice. It’s fast-acting, short-duration — sometimes lasting as briefly ...

As people turn to psychedelic drugs to treat depression and anxiety, the Sonoran Desert toad has become a target of poachers who milk them for DMT. A pair of Sonoran Desert toads, Incilius alvarius, ...

Toads are not generally considered appealing creatures. They look unattractive, make odd noises, move awkwardly, and are steeped in folklore involving the devil and witchcraft. In short, toads tend to ...

What makes a great love story? Maybe it’s chemistry, or devotion, or music swelling at the right moment. Or maybe it’s writing a letter just so the other person has a reason to check the mail. At ...

The harlequin toad largely vanished from a deadly fungal pathogen. Biologists have rediscovered the "starry night" harlequin toad in Colombia for the first time in nearly three decades after the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Brought in to address a problem, cane toads now represent ...

It’s 2023, and life’s never been easier. Your biggest worries are simple things: Are there enough buttons on your jacket? Will you drop your giant ice cream cone? Will any mail come today? And perhaps ...