Lose species and you’re losing more than you might think, a new study by Oregon State University researchers finds.
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For the past four years the Fraser Valley Conservancy, a land trust in British Columbia, has been closing roads to help the provincially blue listed Western Toad migrate safely to the other side. The project has two main observation periods. During the spring FVC staff monitors adult amphibians as they migrate to and from the [...]
An army sergeant in Iraq posted to Facebook a photo of a Lemon-yellow Tree Frog he encountered in a latrine, while a student participating in a scientific expedition in Costa Rica snagged a photo of a toad biologists had thought
The species of burrowing frog called the Pilbara toadlet (Uperoleia saxatilis) measures approximately 2cm long and does not appear to be endangered. This brings the total number of toadlet species in Australia to 27, the second largest group of frog species in the country.
When biologist Ruben Ramirez wants to introduce people to his favorite amphibian, he takes them to a little oasis in the southwestern foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains where an isolated colony of endangered arroyo toads clings to existence by their stout little toes.
A new colony of rare Natterjack toads is to be set up in Norfolk using more than 800 tadpoles from an RSPB nature reserve in Bedfordshire.
On a warm July morning, two biologists and three volunteers scramble up an alpine valley on the Williams Fork of the Colorado River, high in the Colorado Rockies. Their boots, scrubbed with disinfectant at 6 a.m.,
The ground at the Kawkawa Lake picnic area and boat launch is hopping with tiny, dark coloured toads this time of year, but residents say that’s nothing out of the ordinary.
BRUNEI – Any new finds of unrecorded species of frogs made during the on-going wildlife study of Sungai Ingei Protection Forest will be included into the national inventory of amphibians, members of the scientific team said yesterday.
CONTRACTORS working on a £500,000 ($813,950.00) replacement water supply scheme are to get lessons in recognizing natterjack toads.
The hibernating Canadian toad population in Wood Buffalo National Park appears to have diminished and researchers are hunting for answers.
For more than 10 years, a team of park staff has done an annual survey at two areas of sandy banks outside Fort Smith along
METRO VANCOUVER – Tens of thousands of pebble-sized creatures are flooding across a pair of Chilliwack roads today.
What is thought to be the luckiest toad in the country has been rescued at the Isle of Wight Zoo.
An overeager toad got more than he expected when he zoomed in on what looked like a tasty morsel earlier this week.
They’re small, some slimy and some with warts. And they’re hopping everywhere.
A flood of frogs has filled Lake McClure’s Horseshoe Bend swimming area, taking advantage of the warm
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