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

Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Danielle Hughes was carrying her Chihuahua, named Toad, to her car in the Barlanark area on December 17 when she says the ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

It’s been an incredibly tough year for nature as it battles extremes of weather, according to the National Trust’s annual review, and it is the poor that are suffering the most, say scientists.

A surprising number of exotic birds are OK to own in California. With the exception of the aforementioned Quaker parrot, all ...

Celebrity eagle couple Jackie and Shadow are preparing their nest for a potential new clutch of eggs, which, in past years, ...

Some of the once-natural breeds are more closely connected to their roots than others are. Modern Siberian cats, for example, ...

This year, thousands of visitors joined us for guided hikes, student field trips, volunteer stewardship days, and family ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...