Southern Georgia has a rich frog fauna (about 25 species) and the breeding calls of these amphibians resound through the night during wet weather. This year I have received numerous reports from ...

MILTON -- The eastern spadefoot toad was placed on the endangered list in 2005 when it was found there are only two locations in the state where they live. Pennsylvania is near the northern limit of ...

Noise pollution doesn’t just annoy your neighbors or keep you from sleeping. It’s just possible that, when we make too much noise, we alter the balance between predators and prey in an ecosystem. And ...

Monsoon rains not only cool the air and bathe the desert. They also set the stage for a loud and lusty burst of amphibian amour. Several species of desert toads - quietly tucked away underground for ...

RICHMOND — For years, the only known breeding colony of eastern spadefoot toads in Rhode Island was in the Scudder Preserve, a wooded expanse tucked away in rural Richmond. So on the rainy morning of ...

Most Massachusetts residents have probably never heard of the spadefoot toad — so named for its oddly shaped feet. Perhaps that’s not surprising, since it’s considered the Bay State’s rarest frog ...

As a general rule of thumb, most of the world’s wild animals keep their instinctual mating practices within their own species bubble. But if you’re a female plains spadefoot toad, then you just might ...

New research has upended the conventional wisdom that for a century has incorrectly guided the study of a toad listed as endangered in part of its range. Research by a graduate student in Oregon State ...

Toads will choose to mate with a different species if it gives their progeny a better chance of survival, showing for the first time how females from one species can apply sexual selection pressure on ...