Shine suggested that the baby toads could be infected with a cane toad-specific lung parasite to keep their population in check.

Nearly a century ago, a small group of Australian scientists brought about 100 toxic toads into their country to solve a farming problem. Nobody checked if the toads would even eat the right bugs.

For decades, Australia has tried to rein in cane toads by investing in disease-focused research, fungal approaches, scent-based traps, and government-led response efforts. Even so, some of the ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in ...

When the first cane toads were brought from South America to Queensland in 1935, many of the parasites that troubled them were left behind. But deep inside the lungs of at least one of those pioneer ...