As I wandered around a beaver pond one day in mid-September, I noticed something small and dark moving slowly through the grass and weeds. It was a toadlet, just recently transformed from a tadpole.

Scientists have found the oldest fossil of a giant tadpole, which moved more than 160 million years ago. The recent fossil discovery in Argentina predates the former ancient record holder by roughly ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of Hurricane Florence, the North Carolina coast has been plagued with a tide of frogs and toads, but the storm's record-setting floods aren't entirely to blame. State biologist Jeff Hall ...

Frogs and toads fill the air with a loud chorus on summer evenings, especially following wet weather. But you may have to see them with your ears! Our house cat, Socks, sits on a window ledge next to ...

Evolution is typically a slow process—but one toad species may have inadvertently figured out a way to speed it up: by eating their young. Cane toads are native to Central America, but they were ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...