On a rainy Florida night, a dog investigating the backyard may bite or lick a cane toad before an owner can intervene. The encounter can cause serious illness without the dog swallowing the toad, ...

With the toad front line now just 100km from Broome, there is hope a 7,500-square-kilometre "waterless barrier" can halt any further advance into WA.

Learn about the cane toad, its lethal defense strategy, and why it is so detrimental to the environments it invades. The cane toad is one of the most poisonous amphibians on the planet. If ingested, ...

In a bid to stop the invasion, a “kill zone” between Broome and Port Hedland is being created. Toads perish within days without access to water, so all 200 or so water sources used by cattle farmers ...

Let’s hop on a cull. An alligator might eat your pet, but there’s a much sneakier predator lurking out there, waiting to harm your furriest family members — if you live in waterlogged Southern Florida ...

Cane toads have a powerful built-in defense that can cause serious problems for animals that try to eat them. The zoo keeper ...

Rio Tinto is jointly funding a A$28m "toad containment zoe" to protect the Pilbara region.

In the 1930s, cane toads were introduced to Australia with the promise of solving a beetle problem for sugarcane farmers. However, these toads brought along a deadly catch – their poison glands, which ...

A landmark study published in the journal Conservation Letters this month outlines a clever strategy pioneered by Macquarie University researchers to protect vulnerable native species from the ...

The animal discovered was so big for its species that it was given a special nickname. The Queensland National Parks official Facebook account dubbed it as, “Toadzilla.” The toad in question is a cane ...

Large multi-year study shows that juvenile "taster toads" taught goannas to avoid eating poisonous cane toads, preventing population collapse A landmark study published in the journal Conservation ...