When rain falls and water is plentiful, the sex lives of plains spadefoot toads are pretty, well, plain. Females prowl ponds for the suitor with the most winsome call; they pair off to couple, ...

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 ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. When it comes to sex, it makes sense to stick to your own species. Even putting aside our own innate ...

A small, warty, black toad native to high-mountain lakes hasn't been seen in New Mexico for more than a decade so state officials want to reintroduce it to Rio Arriba County. Leland Pierce, ...