This 15-inch-long cane toad from Darwin, Australia, weighs nearly 2 pounds. The toads, which were imported from South America in a failed effort to eradicate a beetle eating Queensland sugarcane crops ...

This is a basic concept of natural selection in that those traits that make survival easier will be more likely to be passed down to future generations than those that make it more difficult. One ...

An invasive toad species has been wreaking havoc in the waters of northern Australia, but scientists may have found a solution for curbing its growth. A group of researchers from Macquarie University ...

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, ...

Bruce Hobby lives on Magnetic Island, a popular holiday destination known for its idyllic scenery and pristine coastline. But ...

Rick Shine from the University of Sydney's school of biological sciences said the system was already trapping tens of thousands of cane toad tadpoles, and could see the toads eradicated from some ...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says it is aware of a recent video currently circulating on social media ...

Australian frog experts claim a new round of funding for research on controlling the dreaded cane toad is too late to save Australia's world heritage Kakadu National Park, and too little to protect ...

The cane toad has turned out to be its own worst enemy, with the discovery that young can be baited with toad poison. THE SEEMINGLY INDESTRUCTIBLE cane toad may have a weakness after all. Scientists ...

As well as manual toad catching and tadpole baiting, native animals are being fed cane toad flesh laced with poison or nausea-inducing chemicals to make them sick. The idea is that they learn not to ...