Monster Toad Captured!
“This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive.” Cane toad, Bufo marinus The environmental group, Frogwatch, caught one of the largest specimens of toad ever discovered in Darwin,...
View ArticleSwedes Croak Their Way to Victory
Sweden has won the first ever European Bombina Song Contest, in what is surely Europe’s most sparsely attended Idol spinoff. Indigenous to the lowlands of Northern Europe, the fire-bellied toad or...
View ArticleLady, the Toad Sucking Cocker Spaniel
“Toad licking” has been well documented around the world with secretions from many species causing intense hallucinations. In this 2006 NPR podcast, they tell the story of a poor cocker spaniel who...
View ArticleOur New Meat Ant Overlords…
In the 1930s, Australian ecologists shortsightedly introduced the Cane Toad, a species indigenous to South America, to their isolated continent to eat agricultural pests. This famously proved to be a...
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