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

New Curtin University research has found invasive cane toads are on track to reach Western Australia's Pilbara region within ...

Invasive species are always disruptive to the native wildlife in the ecosystems they take over. However, their impact on humans and domesticated animals is usually more indirect. An exception is the ...

The cane toad, a South American amphibian, has become a devastating invasive species globally. Introduced for pest control, ...

In an effort to manage their constantly expanding population in the area, an environmental organisation called Watergum ...

BERLIN - What's making toads puff up and explode in northern Europe? More than 1,000 toad corpses have been found at a pond in an upscale neighborhood in Hamburg and over the border in Denmark after ...

Scientists in Australia have come up with an unusual plan to save freshwater crocodiles that keep dying after eating invasive and poisonous toads. By filling dead toads with a chemical that makes the ...

Cane toads — sizable, toxic amphibians from Central and South America that have been introduced to Hawaii and Australia — can find their way home across long distances. To investigate their homing ...

Across northern Australia, freshwater crocodiles are dying in droves, with some populations down by 70%. That's because the animals are eating a kind of super-poisonous toad that humans brought to the ...

Researchers in Australia concerned about the sharp decline of freshwater crocodiles who eat a toxic, invasive toad species have come up with a stomach-churning way for the reptiles to help themselves.

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Wild crocodiles in Australia keep dying from eating toxic cane toads, so scientists have trained them to avoid the deadly meal by giving them a memorable dose of food poisoning. Cane toads (Rhinella ...