DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, Calif. — When you’re as rare and vulnerable as a black toad, you can’t afford to be coy about romance. Surrounded by an unforgiving desert and forever isolated on a small patch of ...

Cantankerous outlaws and merciless nature are out to kill the arroyo toads of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Like an ecological John Wayne, Sam Sweet — a big man with a beard and ponytail who at ...

California high school sports fans have spoken, choosing the Coalinga Horned Toads as the best mascot in the state. Coalinga (population 17,465) won the contest with 72,114 votes, while Hollister ...

He suggested that it should be up to California legislators to protect the toad. The current lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside, Calif., claims that in cutting the number of acres set aside for the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Two types of yellow-legged frogs, and a kind of toad found in Yosemite National Park, won extra protection Thursday when federal authorities declared nearly 3,000 square miles in ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has stuck to its guns and is designating 1.8 million acres of mostly public California land as habitat critical for the preservation of the Yosemite toad (shown) and two ...

The endangered black toad has the smallest range of any amphibian in North America: a mere 400 acres on the remote Deep Springs College campus nestled between the Inyo and White mountain ranges in ...