When autumn arrives, chestnuts begin to appear in shop windows and on dining tables alike.Steaming hot chestnut rice.

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

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

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

A toad’s winter refuge could be a biohazard. Some young Yosemite toads emerge from their first winter underground infected with the deadly chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, ...

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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Center for Human Development (CHD) has launched a primary care service line at its outpatient behavioral health clinics in West Springfield, Easthampton, and ...

Some weed strains get famous because they’re good. Others get famous because everyone on Instagram and X is arguing about who bred them, who stole them, and if the weed in the bag is even the right ...

At its August 12-13, 2026 meeting, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) unanimously found that a petition to list the western spadefoot toad (Spea hammondii) as threatened throughout ...

A forgotten fossil sitting in a museum drawer for nearly 100 years has turned out to be a game-changing Ice Age discovery. Scientists have identified a previously unknown extinct spadefoot toad — Spea ...

In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.

At the beginning of the end of the last ice age, when the future site of Los Angeles was still a cold, wet forest roamed by mammoths, horses and camels, a toad made a bad decision. It hopped into a ...