This article was originally featured on High Country News. The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America.

A creature once immortalized in fairy tales and garden ponds across Britain is quietly disappearing, according to the ...

What is the Puerto Rican crested toad? The Puerto Rican crested toad is the only toad species native to Puerto Rico. Named for the bony crests above its large, golden eyes, this toad is also ...

When the rains arrive and begin to puddle up, the toads quickly mate and tadpoles have time to grow into baby frogs before ...

Love — or at least sex — was in the air of the small, windowless, biosecure room at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas. Sixteen rectangular, clear plastic bins lined the room’s back and side walls, tiny ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service could kick up some dust with a proposal to designate 930 acres of Nevada desert as critical habitat for the endangered Dixie Valley toad. With its formal publication in ...

RENO, Nev.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 930 acres of protected critical habitat in Nevada for the endangered Dixie Valley toad. The Dixie Valley toad is a small ...

A tiny, vanished toad has returned home. About 2,000 Kihansi spray toads have been reintroduced into the Kihansi Gorge in Tanzania after the animal was declared extinct in the wild. This is the first ...

An endangered toad has been found near the Santa Clara River where a developer with plans for 4,300 homes said it has never been seen before. As a result, the Army Corps of Engineers will review 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 ...