Toads are fascinating creatures for several different reasons, but their reproduction process is easily one of the most ...

In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia’s sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the ...

While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to have evolved a particularly macabre feeding habit that has never before been witnessed in a ...

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 ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- South Florida's recent heavy rain sets the perfect mood for giant toxic toads to breed. They're called Cane toads, or Bufo toads, and the invasive species can be deadly for cats ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

It started in April when a spate of media reports claimed that thousands of the amphibians had died in Hamburg's Altona ...

Since 2010, Church Road in Richmond, near London, England, has closed during the area's toad migration season to protect amphibians hopping to ponds to breed A stretch of road in London has been ...

Scientists document cannibalism in an Atacama toad for the first time, observed in a pond in the Chilean desert.

Scientists can’t predict earthquakes. But toads might be able to. In the spring of 2009, Rachel Grant, a doctoral candidate in life sciences at London’s Open University, was studying a population of ...