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

All it takes is one miserable night after a bad dinner or drink to make humans avoid an ingredient for life. To teach freshwater crocodiles in Australia to avoid a lethally poisonous toad, all it ...

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

Milky liquid squeezed from the glands of cane toads could be key to controlling the invasive pests in Australia. BiodiversityWatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer is working with fellow Top End toad busters ...

Poisonous cane toads are back in many neighborhoods as we get into the rainy season. Dog owners need to be alert because the invasive toads can kill their pets. There is a cane toad trap that you can ...

Rick Shine from the University of Sydney's school of biological sciences said the system was already trapping tens of thousands of cane toad tadpoles, and could see the toads eradicated from some ...

Scientists from Macquarie University working with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western Australia have trialled a new way to ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — Pet owners can add cane toads to the mounting list of things to be weary of, as it turns out they can be potentially fatal for your furry friend. The toad secretes a milky-white ...

A new and unexpected obstacle is thwarting efforts to control the invasive cane toad populations in Australia: a potential ban on the most commonly used method for killing the animals -- carbon ...

The aquatic reptiles cannot resist eating invasive toads that are toxic, so scientists gave the crocodiles a dose of nonlethal food poisoning to adjust their behavior. By Jack Tamisiea When Dr. Seuss ...

SYDNEY, June 13 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say the poison invasive cane toads use to devastate native species could be turned into a weapon against the toads themselves. Researchers at the ...

In the wild rainforest of Australia’s north, park rangers have stumbled upon a predator so large they felt they had no choice but to dub it Toadzilla. The giant cane toad was discovered Jan. 12 by ...