The noise rose and fell in the night air, an odd, almost metallic whirring. Was it some nocturnal construction machinery? A descending spacecraft? It was nothing he'd ever heard in his quiet Cape ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- South Florida's recent heavy rain sets the perfect mood for giant toxic toads to breed. They're called Cane toads, or Bufo toads, and the invasive species can be deadly for cats ...

What do cane or bufo toads sound like? Video plays sound of toxic invaders Steve McQuilkin of The Fort Myers News-Press captured this sound of the invasive, toxic cane toads in his Cape Coral ...

“Who can I call to get rid of these monsters??? I’m dying over here and I have 3 dogs!” The distressed plea for help was posted late last month by Ohilda Gilbert, a real estate agent, on a Facebook ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Brought in to address a problem, cane toads now represent ...

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 ...

The cane-toad invasion of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, began, according to one resident, with a few toads in her pool last Thursday. “We weren’t sure what they were, so we removed them,” she told The ...

Cane toad eggs are laid in long, jelly-like strings, which sink underwater. Source: Watergum Conservationists are calling on the public to help in the effort to combat one of the country's nastiest ...

As cane toad containment efforts intensify, with the toxic species soon set to spread further into previously unaffected areas, a conservation group says it has recorded real success in stripping them ...

Scientists from Macquarie University have come up with an innovative way to stop cane toads killing native wildlife by training goannas to avoid eating the deadly amphibians. A landmark study ...