Each year, hordes of spiny toads (Bufo spinosus) gather to breed and lay their eggs in freshwater lakes and ponds, mainly across Spain, Portugal and France. Mating is a rough and tumble affair ...

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny toad living in a Brazilian rainforest. Researchers measured the flea toad at just over a quarter-inch in length (6.95 ...

I’ve shared news of several species of extremely tiny frogs and toads, commonly known as flea-toads or toadlets (read more here and here). These tiny amphibians are remarkable because they are ...

Donna J. Spino, 88, a long-time resident of East Stroudsburg, PA passed away on Sunday October 27, 2024, of natural causes. Born November 23, 1935, in Scranton PA, she was the daughter of the late Dr.

Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil. They reported their findings in the journal PeerJ. Strangely ...

Brought in to address a problem, cane toads now represent one of Australia’s biggest ecological ... [+] conundrums. Here’s what went wrong. Before 1935, no Australian had encountered a cane ...

That was just a year after he first smoked TOAD VENOM in a bid to treat his substance addiction. The practise involves venom being extracted from the glands of the Sonoran Desert toad, dried into ...

This tiny creature, a flea toad, is so small it can fit on the tip of your finger. Interestingly, it looks smaller than some of the known ant species. A team of scientists from the State ...

Toledo recalls saying. Brazil’s Atlantic forest has many frogs of the Brachycephalus genus, which are known also as saddleback toads. Their penchant for springing around and leaping distances ...

Flea toads, as some species in the genus Brachycephalus are known, are less than 1 cm long in adulthood. Their size is far smaller than a fingernail. The name of a new species, B. dacnis ...