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A forgotten fossil sitting in a museum drawer for nearly 100 years has turned out to be a game-changing Ice Age discovery. Scientists have identified a previously unknown extinct spadefoot toad — Spea ...

In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.

For the first time, researchers have discovered a new species of extinct amphibian from Ice Age Los Angeles at La Brea Tar Pits: a spadefoot toad they have named Spea labreae. Only one other extinct ...

At the beginning of the end of the last ice age, when the future site of Los Angeles was still a cold, wet forest roamed by mammoths, horses and camels, a toad made a bad decision. It hopped into a ...

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“There have been no records of any toads at the preserve since the original springs ran dry sometime around 1962,” the local destination said Springs Preserve A Woodhouse’s toad was spotted at Springs ...

The property was one of three sites where USFWS biologists released 170,000 Houston toad eggs in April as part of a larger effort to reintroduce 3 million eggs and restore wild populations across ...

The beaver and moose may be enduring symbols of Canadian wildlife, but neither is uniquely Canadian from a genetic perspective. But a team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has now ...

Have you heard of toad venom? It’s become much more than an esoteric drug favored by “psychonauts.” But supporters won’t have to lick a toad if the chemically synthesized and purified version becomes ...

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