Most frogs are recognised by a familiar set of features: bulging eyes, powerful legs and a life divided between water and ...

Meet the Surinam Toad, a five-inch-long amphibian that lives in South America. Once the female toad’s eggs are fertilized by the male, they embed in her back, which transforms into a honeycomb-like ...

Toads are fascinating creatures for several different reasons, but their reproduction process is easily one of the most interesting. Rather than simply laying eggs, they lay meter-long strings of eggs ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A critically endangered Puerto Rican toad was born for the first time via in vitro fertilization as U.S. scientists attempt to save it from extinction, officials announced ...

Reproductive arrangements don’t get much stranger than those of the Batura toad of Pakistan. The entire species is the result of two unknown species interbreeding, and each toad carries three sets of ...

A frog on the edge of a pond and a toad crossing a garden path can appear remarkably similar at first glance. Both belong to ...

The female cane toad can pump herself up to mega-size to throw off smaller males striving to mate with her, Australian biologists reported on Wednesday. The unusual tactic suggests that female anurans ...

Adult females successfully deposit up to 20,000 individual eggs within a single reproductive cycle. Maintaining the amplexus posture creates a technical hurdle during the critical external ...