Throughout their life cycle, amphibians are exposed to diverse pathogenic threats including bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoans and helminths. Amphibians defend themselves with innate and adaptive ...

A probiotic treatment has been shown to effectively inoculate endangered Colorado toads and protect them from a virulent fungus that has ravaged the population in recent decades, according to the ...

KUSA — Police officers have dogs that can detect if a person is carrying drugs. Colorado Parks and Wildlife has a dog that can detect toads – high mountain toads that are endangered. Boreal toads live ...

It's the signature Colorado animal you know nothing about: the endangered boreal toad. It's normal to see people lugging massive backpacks up a Colorado trail toward beautiful scenic views. It's not ...

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 ...

Call it high-altitude kombucha: CU Boulder biologist Valerie McKenzie has developed a probiotic solution that inoculates boreal toads from a virulent infection. Once common throughout the Mountain ...

BROWNS CREEK WATERFALL – Thousands of 1-inch black boreal toad tadpoles this week wriggled into a high alpine bog beneath mountain peaks, seemingly pristine habitat for amphibians. But even in ...

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 ...

BUENA VISTA, Colo. (CBS4) - Efforts are underway in Colorado's High Country to bring back the native Boreal toads. Teamwork between Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the McKenzie Lab at the University ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado ” The endangered boreal toad is finally getting its awareness campaign, as zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums around the world have designated 2008 as the Year of the Frog.

The eastern boreal toad population in the high elevations of Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states may be in decline, but it will not be granted protected status under the national Endangered ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BROWNS CREEK WATERFALL — Thousands of 1-inch black boreal toad tadpoles this week wriggled into a high alpine bog beneath mountain peaks, seemingly pristine ...