SYDNEY (Reuters) - It seems a bad back might be the only thing that can stop the relentless spread of Australia's poisonous cane toads, which are killing native animals as they hop across the nation, ...

Scientists in Australia have come up with an unusual plan to save freshwater crocodiles that keep dying after eating invasive and poisonous toads. By filling dead toads with a chemical that makes the ...

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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 ...

Large multi-year study shows that juvenile "taster toads" taught goannas to avoid eating poisonous cane toads, preventing population collapse A landmark study published in the journal Conservation ...

Source: Richard Fisher, via Wikimedia Commons. To protect freshwater crocodiles from deadly invasive cane toads, scientists at Macquarie University collaborated with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the ...

Cane toads secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including dogs and cats.

Scientists from a "de-extinction company" and the University of Melbourne are working to save the northern quoll from a toxic predator by altering its genes, New Scientist reported. The endangered ...

The noise rose and fell in the night air, an odd, almost metallic whirring. Was it some nocturnal construction machinery? A descending spacecraft? It was nothing he'd ever heard in his quiet Cape ...