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The toxic cane toad has placed evolutionary pressure on snakes to adapt their body shape, Australian researchers say. Evolutionary biologist Ben Phillips and PhD supervisor Professor Richard Shine of ...

If you hate snakes, you're about to learn to love frogs even more. In an absolutely wild TikTok, the most unlikely predator feasts on a snake in what can only be explained as part of the terrifying ...

The study, published in Scientific Reports, predicts that without containment efforts, the toxic amphibians will colonize up to 75% of the Pilbara within three decades, putting 25 native species at ...

After describing a unique behaviour in the Small-banded Kukri Snake (Oligodon fasciolatus) last September, two new studies, also led by Henrik Bringsøe, are now reporting the same gruesome feeding ...

Fears about the impact of invasive, poisonous toads in Madagascar appear to be justified, suggests new research. The amphibians are driving a spike in deaths of a native snake species. Asian common ...