The toxic cane toad has placed evolutionary pressure on snakes to adapt their body shape, Australian researchers say. Evolutionary biologist Ben Phillips and PhD supervisor Professor Richard Shine of ...
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 ...
In the wild rainforest of Australia’s north, park rangers have stumbled upon a predator so large they felt they had no choice but to dub it Toadzilla. The giant cane toad was discovered Jan. 12 by ...
As Kylee Gray got out of her car, she looked to the ground and gasped in disbelief. The ranger at Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia, had stopped the vehicle last week in a wild rainforest ...
Australian park rangers discovered a potentially record-breaking giant cane toad last week. Dubbed "Toadzilla," she weighed in at 5.95 pounds, six times more than the average of her species. Cane ...
South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...
Cane toads secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including dogs and cats.