As a general rule of thumb, most of the world’s wild animals keep their instinctual mating practices within their own species bubble. But if you’re a female plains spadefoot toad, then you just might ...

The desert conditions of the Southwestern United States can make life tough for water-dwelling creatures. But some of the ecosystem's animals have learned to adapt — and get creative with their love ...

Scientists have long thought that when two animals from two different species mate, it’s a colossal error and the end of the road for the mismatched couple. It’s ...

RICHMOND — For years, the only known breeding colony of eastern spadefoot toads in Rhode Island was in the Scudder Preserve, a wooded expanse tucked away in rural Richmond. So on the rainy morning of ...

Female toads that flirt with a male of another species may have their own best interests at heart. The plains spadefoot toad spawns offspring that grow up faster if dad is a different species called ...

RICHMOND — The eastern spadefoot toad has brilliant feline eyes, a comical honking call and, as its name suggests, shovel-like protrusions on its hind legs that it uses to expertly burrow into the ...

The month of August brought rain – lots of it. With the recent rainfalls in the Concho Valley, you might see a toad or two hopping around near puddles and you most certainly have heard them calling in ...

Ian Ives wants to get close enough to a spadefoot toad to see the glint in its eye. Who wouldn't want to lock eyes with a comely spadefoot toad, no better way to find a prince or a princess. That's ...

Toads will choose to mate with a different species if it gives their progeny a better chance of survival, showing for the first time how females from one species can apply sexual selection pressure on ...

In the 1980s, a rare and elusive amphibian called the spadefoot toad vanished from its habitat in Falmouth. For the last decade, conservationists have tried to bring it back. Now they believe they’ve ...