RICK SHINE: Yeah, so, remarkably, the cane toads within Australia display intense cannibalism when they’re tadpoles. If a cane toad tadpole is sitting in a pond and it detects a female toad has come ...

Scientists in Australia have a problem: the invasive cane toad is taking over. ... Toads eat insect larvae, spiders, slugs, and worms. Larger toads may eat small grass snakes and harvest mice.

Staton, this offbeat series investigates mankind’s sometimes unintended impact and its efforts to set things right. First up, ...

Ninety years ago, cane toads were introduced to Australia to fix a beetle problem - but it quickly turned into one of the ...

Night vision cameras recorded the culprit, who left nothing behind but skin, bones and the cane toad's deadly poison glands.

Cane toads are an incredibly destructive invasive pest, consuming a wide range of prey and killing most predators that come in contact with its poison. But one native animal has learned to fight back.

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

Poisonous cane toads were imported to Australia, Hawaii and other areas from mainland Central and South America to try to control crop pests and ended up doing massive damage to native predators.

Cane toads were found at Sandon River in the Northern Rivers region, and most recently in Coffs Harbour, much further south than expected. These results mean a lot to local Indigenous mobs.