A study suggests that pathogens affecting other species can indirectly harm human health.

The starry night harlequin toad was lost to science for nearly 30 years until an indigenous community in Colombia permitted conservation biologists to visit its habitat in April.

The introduction of the poisonous Duttaphrynus melanostictus into Madagascar could be fatally risky for the island’s native predators.

Researchers recently used CRISPR single-guide RNAs to alter genes involved in pigmentation in frog embryos.

Baby frogs don’t develop the neural circuitry responsible for feeding inhibition until they begin metamorphosing into adults. 

The bombardier beetle forced its devourer to vomit it out by releasing explosive, toxic chemicals.

The Asian common toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus), like other amphibians, will periodically shed the outermost layer of its skin, then consume it. 

Problematic dietary advice; the man whose cells were fixed with CRISPR; treating toads

Researchers eliminated chytrid fungus from a Mediterranean island toad population using antifungals and disinfectants.

Several toad, newt, and salamander populations are being hit hard by an emerging pathogen in a pristine national park in Spain.

A yellow-bellied dwarf toad, last sighted in 1876, is rediscovered in Sri Lanka.