Tree toads likely evolved to give live birth because they don't live near water. A frog’s lifecycle is likely one of the earliest bits of science that many of us remember learning. They start as eggs, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens is celebrating a record-breaking year in its mission to save a critically endangered ...

CREEDE, Colo. — The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance (DZCA) and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) have released more than 2,200 boreal toad tadpoles into the wetlands near Creede. In 2021, DZCA and ...

PITKIN, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday afternoon that a CPW team found wild boreal toad tadpoles at a reintroduction site in Gunnison County. CPW said the discovery is ...

The Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens is doing its part to help prevent a critically endangered amphibian from going extinct. The Puerto Rican crested toad is only found in Puerto Rico, where ...

The Denver Zoo and Colorado Parks and Wildlife have taken the next step in a program to increase the number of boreal toads in the state. The two teamed up last November to help the toads which are an ...

Scientists have knocked out genes that trigger cane toad tadpoles to turn into active toads, turning them into "Peter Pan"-like perpetual adolescents. The work provides a way to slow or halt the ...

A pair of Puerto Rico's Crested Toads photographed at Lansing's Potter Park Zoo. Lansing’s Potter Park Zoo is helping a species of rare amphibians make a comeback in their native home in the Caribbean ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens is celebrating a record-breaking year in its mission to save a critically endangered toad. This year, the zoo flew 24,485 Puerto Rican ...