Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Lotus roots, sponges, honeycomb, or – yes – the pockmarked back of a water-dwelling toad are all it takes to trigger a person ...

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

Urbanisation is rapidly changing landscapes, but little is known about its impact on smaller, less charismatic species such as frogs or toads. A new assessment in Bengaluru, looks at urbanisation’s ...

Long before humans developed seismographs and early warning systems for earthquakes, numerous animal species were already displaying remarkable abilities to detect these natural disasters. Throughout ...

I spotted this creature at Killygarvan graveyard, Rathmullan, Co Donegal in July – a toad – but it doesn’t match the pictures of Irish toads. Francis McNicholl That is because it is not our native ...

Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over fifty common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 meters high ...

Three newly-identified toad species in Tanzania give birth to live young, skipping the frogspawn and tadpole stages — an "exceptionally rare" trait among toads and frogs. When you purchase through ...

Gurgaon: Inside a small campus pond in Delhi, a male Indian bullfrog tried to mate with an Asian common toad. What looks like a wildlife blooper is actually a scientific first for India. The first ...

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for having offspring away from water? Skipping the ...

When the first drops of monsoon rain hit the ground across India and Southeast Asia, nature stages one of its most curious love stories — a transformation so vivid it’s almost magical. Each year, the ...