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

According to researchers, the study looks at the impact of urbanisation on sensitive groups like frogs and toads. However, ...

The color change, driven by hormones, seems aimed at preventing males from accidentally mating with each other.

There's some truth to the urban legend that certain toads have psychedelic properties, but licking them isn't a good idea.

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference.

Modern toads (Bufonidae) are among the most successful amphibians on the planet, a diverse group of more than 600 species ...

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 ...

Biologists, volunteers and others gather to install beaver dam analogues in hopes the real critters will eventually move in.

According to a local legend, the Texas horned toad can live a century without food or water. One local Texas man put that ...

Leptobrachella are a group of leaf litter frogs that are “ forest dwellers,” and species in this group are spread out through ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Over 250 species are identified as at-risk species in Utah, and conservationists say anyone in the state can get involved to help protect them. The Utah Wildlife Action Plan is the ...

The world we share with countless species is growing smaller, and for some, it’s already too late. Over the past century, ...