Two Asian common toad couples mating in Karnataka, India. The yellow toads pictured are male and the brown toads are female. Susanne Stückler As the first monsoon rains in India and southeast Asia ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...

The common toad is a rather rotund animal with short legs and an ungainly gait. It certainly doesn’t look like a good tree climber – yet citizen surveys suggest that common toads often climb trees to ...

Dedicated volunteers have safely guided more than two million toads across British roads during their annual spring migration over the last 50 years, a wildlife charity has revealed. As "toad ...

Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over fifty common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 meters high. Volunteers surveying dormice and ...

Andy Smart from Froglife said more volunteers were needed to protect the animals Hundreds of migrating toads who were at risk of being killed by traffic have been safely relocated to breeding ponds by ...

Volunteers go out at night and ensure toads get across roads safely and to their breeding ground.

Every year, thousands of common toads, frogs and newts awaken from their winter hibernation and make the perilous journey back to their ancestral breeding ponds. On mild, damp evenings between January ...

Fears about the impact of invasive, poisonous toads in Madagascar appear to be justified, suggests new research. The amphibians are driving a spike in deaths of a native snake species. Asian common ...

It has been a year of milestones for a group of toad patrollers as they have now helped 50,000 amphibians reach their breeding grounds in the last three decades. The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group ...