The admirable little red-bellied toad is the size of a thumb, but it has achieved giant feats: In 2014, it prevented the ...

We’ve all heard of rain delays and wind delays, but on Saturday at the British Open, play was briefly suspended for one of the strangest reasons imaginable: A toad was spotted hopping around Royal ...

As tasty as it might look, you should refrain from licking the Sonoran desert toad, the National Park Service has warned. On Tuesday, the NPS used Facebook to warn passerby to use caution around the ...

Since 2010, Church Road in Richmond, near London, England, has closed during the area's toad migration season to protect amphibians hopping to ponds to breed A stretch of road in London has been ...

Human-caused climate change is threatening amphibians around the world, a new study published Wednesday suggests. In fact, 2 out of every 5 amphibian species are now threatened with extinction ...

As human diseases become alarmingly antibiotic resistant, identification of new pharmaceuticals is critical. The cane toad and other members of the Bufonidae family produce substances widely used in ...

A protozoan parasite, Dermosporidium penneri sp. n., was found in the skin of the American Toad, Bufo americanus, in Connecticut. The life cycle was not determined. Attempts to infect other B.