Britain’s toads have begun their spring migration, putting them at even greater risk than usual. Here’s how – and why – we should look after them ...

"They call me papa toad," he laughs, almost on cue producing a frog‑shaped hat from his pocket and settling it on his head. Most nights from February through to March, Martin and fellow volunteers fan ...

Field work is underway near Broome where researchers are deliberately breeding the invasive cane toad as part of a strategy to protect native wildlife.

Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news — the mountain toads are making tadpoles! For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...

In the animal kingdom there are many traits that can make it easier, or more difficult, to survive. This is a basic concept of natural selection in that those traits that make survival easier will be ...

Wildlife biologists recently discovered rare toads are naturally repopulating in a high mountain lake where captively raised tadpoles were transplanted for several years. Staff from the Colorado Parks ...

Behind a gate at the edge of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in City Park is the Boreal Toad Conservation Center, a building colloquially known by zoo staff as the “Toad Barn.” Inside, awkward ...

For two years Mike Flaherty and his son have braved the chilly late-winter nights as they head out on "toad patrol" in ...

Both frogs and toads need water to survive.  Both species lay their eggs in water and their eggs hatch into tadpoles.  Tadpoles cannot survive in open air. The differences in frogs and toads ...