American coots can be identified by their black, chicken-shaped bodies and ghostly white beaks that droop slightly.

ACTION is being taken to tackle a plant issue on the Bridgewater Canal. The fast spread of the invasive water fern, azolla, on the canal at Dunham has been causing concern for a number of weeks, ...

Climate change may be making things worse for boreal toads that are facing many other challenges in the Southern Rocky ...

A Tanzanian dam cut a waterfalls flow by 90%, threatening a toad that lived on five acres. Sprinklers, a 499-toad zoo rescue ...

Ever heard of the saying, one step forward, three steps back? History has plenty of examples where that ratio might actually ...

Researchers document the first pre-amplexus reproductive behavior in the genus Boulenophrys, revealing complex mating rituals ...

Many animal lovers have grown up watching amphibians since they were children. With frogs and newts living in ponds, rivers, ...

The toad is one of the world’s most destructive invasive species, after being introduced to countries as a biological control.

A deadly fungus known as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is devastating amphibian populations around the world. Now, biologists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe one of ...

Wildlife diseases are hard to fight when the most important part of an infection happens out of sight. For threatened Yosemite toads, that hidden period may be winter, when the animals disappear ...