As the sun descends behind sand dunes and wind-carved escarpments, central Qatar’s Al Rayyan region gets a reprieve from the intense heat of day. In the calm of twilight, a once-foreign sound emerges: ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – Emergence of a chytrid fungus that infects the skin of boreal toads in Summit County and other amphibians has been traced back to South Africa, said Colorado Division of Wildlife ...

SUMMIT COUNTY – Emergence of a chytrid fungus that infects the skin of boreal toads in Summit County and other amphibians has been traced back to South Africa, says Colorado Division of Wildlife ...

Researchers have found a new species of African pygmy toad in Serra da Neve Inselberg, an isolated mountain and Angola’s second-highest peak. The new species, formally named Poyntonophrynus pachnodes, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A Johns Hopkins University scientist hit the gym soon after returning from a trip to South Africa and discovered an unexpected workout partner: an endangered-species toad that stowed ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...