A frog on the edge of a pond and a toad crossing a garden path can appear remarkably similar at first glance. Both belong to the same amphibian order, Anura, and both begin life in water before ...

Last year, Cynthia Berger tried for an autumn spinach harvest in her Pennsville, Pa. garden. The pests got there first. “It was slug city,” says Berger. The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The endangered Houston toad has disappeared from most of its historic range, but decades of captive breeding, egg releases and ...

In this video, you see Texas Parks and Wildlife staff releasing toad eggs and tadpoles from the Houston Zoo into Bastrop State Park. Why would a crew of wildlife experts transport more than a million ...

The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America. But now, at least, it will have more room to recover: On ...

Radiotelemetry studies reveal that Asiatic toads in South Korea remain largely immobile and prefer grassland habitats as they ...

Ecuador's Angamarca River Valley is home to the last population of the endangered Jambato harlequin toad (Atelopus ignescens). A road project that the region desperately needs now threatens the toad's ...

Learn about the cane toad, its lethal defense strategy, and why it is so detrimental to the environments it invades.

The main entrance of Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in St. Paul is busy with strollers and chatty kids on a hot weekday afternoon. Below all that, in a tiny basement room marked “biosecure,” zookeeper ...

A person found boxes and boxes of their late grandmother’s toad photographs among her belongings, and they’ve now started an ...

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