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 crested toad tadpoles ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Wildlife biologists recently discovered rare toads are naturally repopulating in a high mountain lake where captively raised tadpoles were transplanted for several years. Staff from the Colorado Parks ...

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 Surinam toad has an unusual trick for reproduction: instead of leaving their spawn in water to develop, once the eggs are laid, the male presses them into the female's back.

Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news — the mountain toads are making tadpoles! For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...

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 ...