The toad’s own 5-MeO-DMT was first reported in the mid-1960s, but it was a pamphlet published in 1983 that ushered it from obscurity and called attention to the creature’s psychoactive compound.

The adage “all attention is good attention” may be true for marketers — not so for the Sonoran Desert toad. Last fall, the U.S. National Park Service sent out a message on Facebook asking ...

The toad’s own 5-MeO-DMT was first reported in the mid-1960s, but it was a pamphlet published in 1983 that ushered it from obscurity and called attention to the creature’s psychoactive compound.

The cane toad next to a pen, for scale. The State of Queensland Department of Environment and Science. The cane toad is considered such a problem due to their impact on other native wildlife.

Rediscovering the Syrian spadefoot toad is a sign of optimism and renewal of hope in a troubled part of the world. The article, though, is a use of science to spread enmity.

A horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail.

Queensland Department of Environment and Science Park rangers in Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia, stumbled upon a massive cane toad that clocked in at nearly six pounds—and it may ...

Rangers in northeastern Australia were astonished when they stumbled across what may be the largest toad on record, weighing in at nearly 6 pounds. Dubbed “Toadzilla” by the rangers, the 2.7 ...

This makes it the seventh flea-toad species known to science, and the second-smallest vertebrate species known on the planet. One specimen found from another Brachycephalus frog is slightly ...