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.

“If you look at the iguana, there’s a circle on the side of its head that’s actually a really good aiming point,” he says.

In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia’s sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the ...

Scientists have knocked out genes that trigger cane toad tadpoles to turn into active toads, turning them into "Peter Pan"-like perpetual adolescents. The work provides a way to slow or halt the ...

Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control sugarcane beetles, but the toads ignore the beetles while decimating the ecosystem they were meant to protect. Instead, they became a highly ...

In northern Australia, some freshwater crocodile populations are down by 70% because they're eating a kind of super poisonous toad that isn't even from Australia. Well, now a team of researchers has ...

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 ...

A research breakthrough has boosted plans to genetically ­engineer quolls as a new weapon against cane toads, fast-track ...