Meet the bizarre toad that 'sees' with its fingertips and gives birth through holes in its back

For nearly two centuries, scientists have puzzled over how the Surinam toad manages to be such a deft and fierce hunter ...

Endangered Lantau toads show genetic and call differences that could signal an emerging species

The short-legged horned toad (Boulenophrys brachykolos), listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, is the only known small frog ...

Puerto Rican crested toad

Puerto Rican crested toads were thought to be extinct from 1931 to 1967, when a population was discovered in northern Puerto Rico. Today, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ...

Yosemite toad killer may be hiding in their own homes

UCLA biologists have found the hiding place of a silent killer stalking threatened Yosemite toads: their own burrows. The Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) fungus decimating amphibian populations ...

An Ice Age Toad Sat Hidden in a Museum for 70 Years

A fossil collected from the La Brea Tar Pits in the 1950s spent decades cataloged and forgotten in a museum collection, until one scientist took a closer look and realized no one had ever seen this ...

This Weird Toad Drove a Brilliant Scientist to His Death. What If He Was Framed?

Paul Kammerer was one of the premier biologists of his generation. But his ideas made him some enemies.
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Toad in the hole

Elemental creatures of darkness, toads have always been linked to the supernatural. Stone-like themselves, they were thought capable of surviving within solid rock. Even today, every encyclopedia of ...