Oriental fire-bellied toads secrete toxins from their skin ... Tadpoles survive on algae, fungi, and plants, while the adults eat a variety of invertebrates, including worms, insects, and mollusks.

Researchers described Leptobrachella yongshunensis, or the Yongshun leaf litter toad, as having toes with “narrow fringes,” a “creamy” white belly, a brick-red body with “large” warts ...

But by the time scientists described it in 2017, the toad was already imperiled. The very landscape that makes the Dixie Valley ideal for this animal also draws development. We’re fighting to save it ...

Federal wildlife managers say the plant poses a significant risk of extinction to the Dixie Valley toad. On Monday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the toad, which lives only at the hot ...