A new toothed toad has been discovered in Vietnam by scientists on the hunt for its “brother”. Researchers made the surprise ...

Other genetic solutions are in development. Tadpole cannibalism has inspired a team at Macquarie University to engineer “Peter Pan” tadpoles, so called because the genes which allow them to grow up ...

‘PELOBATES SYRIACUS,’ the Syrian spadefoot toad. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) I was young Canadian scientist working with Israeli scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technolog ...

One of the world’s rarest toads has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time outside its country of origin by scientists at Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester . The ...

The Wuling Mountains, where the singing creature was found, has been identified as a “biological hot spot” in China, a study said.

Cane toads are highly adaptive and release a destructive toxin Scientists say they have unlocked the DNA blueprint of the cane toad, raising fresh hopes of slowing the animal's destruction of ...

Bad Bunny’s latest album amplifies the voices of Puerto Rico’s coquí and endangered crested toad, highlighting the urgent ...

The toad got its name from Gollum, also known as Sméagol, in Tolkien's trilogy because scientists saw similarities between the two. "Smeagol from Lord of the Rings is a semi-aquatic creature ...

Although the Kihansi spray toad went extinct in the wild, all was not lost. Forward-thinking scientists, who recognized the toad's dramatic population decline, established a captive population ...