Other genetic solutions are in development. Tadpole cannibalism has inspired a team at Macquarie University to engineer ...

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Tony Armstrong discusses why cane toads are considered an invasive species in Australia. In this video, he visits a group of ...

The title “Community science rediscovers the Syrian Spadefoot Toad, Pelobatus syriacus, in war-torn regions of Syria” is a good précis of the article. The authors, Yaman Omran (University of ...

The masked toad is no ordinary amphibian. Leaving aside its somewhat misleading common name – it takes a bit of imagination to detect, in the black ridges that run between its eyes, the outline ...

Is There Something More We Could Have Done? The fact is that the Kihansi spray toad was unknown to science in 1995, when the construction of the dam began. As soon as we discovered the toad in ...

Eating rabbit, camel, carp, feral cat, deer and cane toad might sound extreme to some, but it's gaining attention as a solution to tackle the growing impact of invasive species. Now, Tony ...

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Six-year-old Otis crouches in the dark, waiting patiently. Then with a flurry of arms and legs he pounces on a cane toad, picks it up, and tosses it in a bucket. Otis and his eight-year-old ...