A new agreement between a conservation group and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moves a toad found only in Nevada closer to federal protection.

Having failed to meet a deadline and getting sued for it, a federal agency Wednesday agreed to decide whether to list a rare Nevada toad as a threatened or endangered species within the next two ...

In a quiet patch of marsh in Nye County, a toad the size of a child’s palm has just pulled the federal government a little deeper into Nevada’s water wars. The Railroad Valley toad, which lives only ...

By Mongabay.com March 20 is World Frog Day. Frogs and toads have inhabited Earth for hundreds of millions of years, but 40% of amphibians species are now at risk of extinction, according to the latest ...

Researchers from around the world have made a very cool toad-related discovery. They identified three previously unknown species of toads native to Tanzania, East Africa, who have the particularity of ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

The three varieties of tree toad from Tanzania were previously classified as one species: Nectophrynoides viviparus. However, when scientists analyzed the physical traits and genetic data of hundreds ...