A female crested toad can lay up to 15,000 eggs, which hatch into tadpoles within a day. Those that don’t succumb to predation or habitat destruction reach the metamorphosis stage within 18 to ...

New research from Kelly Zamudio at The University of Texas at Austin and an international team finds climate change threatens ...

In recent years, the Hawaiian Islands have faced a silent invasion that threatens their delicate ecosystems. The introduction ...

now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of the World ... Horned Lizard has disappeared from as much as 30% of its natural habitat. Agricultural practices, encroachment by humans and the ...

The fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

“Human land use and cover change is rapidly altering the size, type and configuration of habitat” for the amphibians and ...

Toads lay their eggs in long strings that cling to the bottom of the water, while frogs deposit theirs in small clusters at the water’s surface. The toad’s skin usually has a large number of ...

Two of the UK's four native frog and toad species are already very rare due to habitat loss. Natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) are now only present at about 60 sites in Britain, mainly in coastal ...

Unfortunately, many frog and toad populations have experienced dramatic declines due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate ...