It's a tadpole-eat-tadpole world out there — and that's exactly what Australian scientists are hoping will control the spread of a giant invasive toad with toxic flesh. The toads are also locked into ...

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 'Peter Pan' tadpoles have voracious appetites for their fellow hatchlings and toad eggs. Genetically modified, cannibal ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Cairns. Followed categories will be added to My News. According to Professor Lin Schwarzkopf, head of Zoology and Ecology at James Cook University Townsville, cane ...

Since its arrival from South America in 1935, the cane toad has caused mayhem in Australia even if the feared ecological disaster hasn’t materialised. Now it seems one of the toad’s more gruesome ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Cairns. Followed categories will be added to My News. In the last few weeks, a slew of cane toads and their tadpoles have woken and can be seen swarming water ...

A chemical produced naturally by cane toad tadpoles may one day be used to help control the invasive species, according to new research published today. Cane toads are native to South America but have ...

This brew of poisons is what makes an animal that would normally be a crunchy treat into a last meal for native lizards, local marsupial carnivores and dogs. The surviving predators tend to give the ...

It's a tadpole-eat-tadpole world out there — and that's exactly what Australian scientists are hoping will control the spread of a giant invasive toad with toxic flesh. The cane toad (Bufo marinus), ...

It's a tadpole-eat-tadpole world out there — and that's exactly what Australian scientists are hoping will control the spread of a giant invasive toad with toxic flesh. The toads are also locked into ...