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Researchers Forced Cane Toads To Hatch As Albinos In Order To Determine Why Natural Selection Has Made This Condition So Rare

Using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool, the researchers edited the toad eggs to turn off a gene known as tyrosinase, which is responsible ...

Cane Toad: The Amphibian Whose Eggs Look Like Jewels

Cane toads appear ordinary, yet their breeding reveals stunning jewel-like egg strands. Beautiful but toxic, these shimmering chains highlight survival, invasion, and nature’s deceptive brilliance.

Cane toads are hopping towards the Pilbara, but a water-free containment zone could stop them

It is early evening in Australia's top end, and a hunter stalks its prey. Keenly alert, the northern quoll follows the sound ...

Invasive cane toads expected to reach western Australia's Pilbara within two decades

New Curtin University research has found invasive cane toads are on track to reach Western Australia's Pilbara region within ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For Two Days Each Year, These Drab Brown Toads Turn a Dazzling Neon Yellow—and Scientists Finally Know Why

For two days at the start of monsoon season on the Indian subcontinent, male Asian common toads (right) turn bright yellow, while females (left) stay brown. Stückler et al. / Ichthyology & Herpetology ...
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For Just Two Days A Year, These Male Toads Turn A Jazzy Bright Yellow. Now We Know Why

If you’re trying to find a date, you want to look your best, right? Snazzy outfit, slick hair, makeup on point – whatever it takes to get the best choice of partner in the Grand Annual Orgy. Sound ...
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This Amphibian’s Eggs Look Like Jewelry

The toxic cane toad may be big and warty, but the eggs it lays in delicate, translucent strings resemble a strand of ...
KNAU Arizona Public Radio

Toads have found their way to 6 out of the 7 continents ... so far

Toads have made their way to just about every corner of the world, even potentially Antarctica, something deemed unthinkable in the past. What's behind this vast toad migration?v ...

Warning to Aussies over 'toxic' backyard discovery as invasive threat spreads: 'Can be thousands'

Cane toads are one of Australia's worst invasive species, having exploded in numbers across the country since their arrival.