Toads are no match for the bombardier beetle. In fact, according to new research recently published in the journal "Biology Letters," even after being swallowed for nearly two hours, the beetles ...

SUMMIT COUNTY ” Although federal biologists decided for now to keep boreal toads off the endangered species list, a recent amphibian conservation summit in Washington, D.C. ended with a slate of ...

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 ...

“Are they out yet?” a driver yelled out the window of a tomato-colored Scion, addressing the group of volunteers at the intersection of Port Royal Avenue and Hagys Mill Road. In Roxborough, people ...

BRECKENRIDGE – While amphibian species are vanishing from around the globe at an alarming rate, the Cucumber Gulch wetlands in Breckenridge could soon be an important recovery site for rare boreal ...

I’ve shared news of several species of extremely tiny frogs and toads, commonly known as flea-toads or toadlets (read more here and here). These tiny amphibians are remarkable because they are much ...

LIMA (Reuters) -A small sculpture of two toads, and other water-linked symbols found near the Peruvian city of Caral - once the oldest city on the continent - have helped archaeologists confirm that ...

This is exactly how we introduce frogs to the younger students who come to amphibian-related field trips at Woodland Dunes. Frogs are probably one of the more widely known animals that live in a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- On warm nights in the city's Upper Roxborough section, American Toads make the trek from the woods of the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education to an old reservoir nearby ...