Cane toads, aka bufo toads, in Florida secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, ...

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You're probably aware that Florida has battled invasive species for decades. From Burmese pythons, tegus and green iguanas to rhesus macaque monkeys and lionfish, non-native species pose a significant ...

Evolution is typically a slow process—but one toad species may have inadvertently figured out a way to speed it up: by eating their young. Cane toads are native to Central America, but they were ...

On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, ...

Source: Richard Fisher, via Wikimedia Commons. To protect freshwater crocodiles from deadly invasive cane toads, scientists at Macquarie University collaborated with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the ...

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What's believed to be the largest-ever toad recorded was captured in Australia. It was a cane toad, an invasive species known for its poisonous glands. Toadzilla stalks no longer. The cane toad is ...

After overpopulating an adopted homeland, this toad is cannibalizing its own species. Known as the marine toad, giant toad, and cane toad, Rhinella marina feasts on insects in its native South America ...