Cane toads can adapt so well to Australia's climate that these amphibian pests may eventually spread around three-quarters of the country's coastline, biologists predict. They says that the cane toad, ...

Scientists have launched a new weapon in the fight to keep cane toads from reaching the Pilbara, in north-west WA. The TCZ is based on decades of research including cane toad migration modelling. The ...

Authorities in the Australian state of Queensland have successfully enlisted the public's help in a mass cull of cane toads. Amelia Elgar weighs a cane toad at a collection point in Cairns on Sunday. ...

Authorities in northern Australia have launched a campaign to find the most successful way of slowing the devastating spread of cane toads. The poisonous amphibians have become one of the country's ...

Highly intelligent, semi-aquatic rodents in Australia have figured out how to precisely cut open the toxic bodies of an invasive species in order to partially eat them, researchers have found.

Since their introduction in 1935, cane toads (Rhinella marina) have become one of Australia’s most notorious invasive species, profoundly impacting native ecosystems. Research over recent decades has ...

It's an invasion by the millions, and a force so serious that the Australian army has been called upon to stop its westward march. The threat, however, is not a marauding foreign military or rebel ...

(Corrects lead paragraph to say amphibians, not reptiles) SYDNEY, March 27 (Reuters) - A huge cane toad the size of a small dog has been captured in the Australian tropical city of Darwin, startling ...

Lee A Rollins receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Rick Shine receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Greg Brown does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

A giant cane toad weighing 2.7kg dubbed “Toadzilla” has been discovered in an Australian rainforest. The amphibian- believed to be the heaviest ever recorded- was discovered by “shocked” park rangers ...