Individuals at an invasion front may allocate most of their resources to dispersing rather than reproducing. In the invasive cane toad in Australia, researchers report, invasion-front males have ...

This involves releasing small cane toads or tadpoles ahead of the cane toad front, so that animals which eat them get a smaller amount of toxin. It is enough to make them ill, but not enough to ...

Toad biologists call this acceleration the Olympic Village effect. It is a superb example of evolution in action. Only the most athletic toads make it to the invasion front, where they breed.

but if we can create pockets where the native predators survive then they can colonise surrounding areas after the toad front moves through." "It's not something you'd like to spend the rest of ...

The cane toad, a toxic, invasive species notorious for ... is that the researchers are almost seeing it “develop in front of their eyes”, given that the behaviour arose in less than a hundred ...

US researchers carrying out a sonar survey of Loch Ness have been amazed to find a common toad crawling in the mud 324ft (98m) down. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been attempting ...

The team surveyed crocodiles in four regions of the Victoria river before the cane toad front arrived in… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with ...