At the start of each farming season, Ademigokun Sunday grabs a sack of hoes and a cutlass and treks for 40 minutes to the wooded valleys of the Idanre hills, the massive 3,000-foot-high rocky outcrops ...

Sonoran Desert toads use a fascinating defense mechanism against predators—hallucinogenic toxins. But nature has found a way around it. Amphibians are remarkably resilient creatures. In the 300 ...

It is the “quiet” parts of the book that we loved most. I would sneak a look at my grandson with his head on his pillow, ...

Life might be a little easier if we could all pack up our things and move into the world of Frog and Toad. What if life’s biggest issues were lacking the willpower to stop eating cookies, goofy ...

OUR BASEMENT is typically dry, but when we installed a new furnace years ago, we also had a sump pump installed. In the first crazy winter rain event this season, the sump pump had a minor malfunction ...

There’s good news for the local music scene. The Cambridge-based club Toad, which was up for sale and thought to be closing, will survive under a sale agreement that its owners just reached. Toad and ...

When Johannes Reckweg arrived in the Netherlands in 2016 to work on his master’s program in neuropsychology, he didn’t expect to learn about a psychedelic compound commonly found in a toad that lives ...

Known in Brazil as the admirable little red-bellied toad, the rare Melanophryniscus admirabilis is endemic to a stretch of the Forqueta River in Rio Grande do Sul state. It made history in 2014 when ...

The American toad is one of the most well-known toad species throughout North America. Its notable warts and big, round eyes differentiate it from other species, but its call is also unique. You might ...