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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of Spea labreae, sp. nov. (dark spadefoots, center and right) in La Brea Tar Pits compared with Spea hammondii ...

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.

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 ...

“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 mystery of why some amphibian populations recover following outbreaks of a deadly fungus has been solved in a new study led by University College London (UCL), ZSL and Imperial College London. The ...

Cane toads, large and poisonous invasive amphibians, pose a threat to Floridian pets, particularly during the State's rainy season. Also called bufo, giant or marine toads, they are poisonous "to most ...

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 ...

The rainy season in South Florida attracts more amphibious jumpers to home yards — and every pet owner should fear one kind. More frogs and toads are jumping around backyards, and their numbers ...

A Gulf Coast toadlet, smaller than the size of a penny, commonly appears in Houston following summer rains. Nearly every year, the Houston area becomes inundated with millions of tiny, penny-sized ...