RICHMOND — The eastern spadefoot toad has brilliant feline eyes, a comical honking call and, as its name suggests, shovel-like protrusions on its hind legs that it uses to expertly burrow into the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Research by a graduate student in Oregon State University's College of Science has upended the conventional wisdom that for a century has incorrectly guided the study of a toad ...

RICHMOND — For years, the only known breeding colony of eastern spadefoot toads in Rhode Island was in the Scudder Preserve, a wooded expanse tucked away in rural Richmond. So on the rainy morning of ...

First it threw a wrench in plans for a park in the Gray’s Woods neighborhood. Then the Eastern spadefoot toad changed the path of a proposed bicycle and pedestrian trail along Circleville Road. It was ...

New research has upended the conventional wisdom that for a century has incorrectly guided the study of a toad listed as endangered in part of its range. Research by a graduate student in Oregon State ...

Ian Ives wants to get close enough to a spadefoot toad to see the glint in its eye. Who wouldn't want to lock eyes with a comely spadefoot toad, no better way to find a prince or a princess. That's ...

RICHMOND, R.I.RICHMOND, R.I. — Rhode Island has created breeding wetlands to support the endangered Eastern spadefoot toad. The Westerly Sun reports that the state Department of Environmental ...