Eat them alive, or at least get predatory ants to do it for us – that’s the latest proposal for dealing with the invasion of tropical Australia by toxic cane toads. And in an unrelated move, ...

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What may work in Australia’s favor is that cane toads (Rhinella marina), have a weird quirk in their breeding habits, Throb reports. In what would prove to be a very bad idea, cane toads were released ...

It is early evening in Australia's top end, and a hunter stalks its prey. Keenly alert, the northern quoll follows the sound of rustling in the leaf litter. It must be some kind of frog, the small ...

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Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s ...

In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia's sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the soil and chewed on sugarcane roots, stunting growth or killing the plants.