In a groundbreaking conservation effort, Australian researchers are training native quolls to avoid lethal cane toads by ...

CANE TOADS are being captured by locals before being made into sausages. But there’s a very good reason for the sickening snack. If the idea of chewing down on snags made from one of Australia’s most ...

The aquatic reptiles cannot resist eating invasive toads that are toxic, so scientists gave the crocodiles a dose of nonlethal food poisoning to adjust their behavior. By Jack Tamisiea When Dr. Seuss ...

In 1935, a species known as the giant neotropical toad (Rhinella marina) was introduced to Australia. Scientists hoped these amphibians would control native cane beetles, but cane toads quickly ...

This 15-inch-long cane toad from Darwin, Australia, weighs nearly 2 pounds. The toads, which were imported from South America in a failed effort to eradicate a beetle eating Queensland sugarcane crops ...

Don’t underestimate a swamphen. “I HAD HEARD that some birds had begun to feed in this way but I had never witnessed it myself,” says Greg Bourke, the curator manager of the Blue Mountains Botanic ...