In a groundbreaking conservation effort, Australian researchers are training native quolls to avoid lethal cane toads by using nausea-inducing toad sausages, improving survival rates in the wild.

Cane toads are one of Australia's most notorious invasive species for a reason. They spread aggressively and can poison ...

Australian scientists introduced toxic cane toads to control sugar cane pests in 1935. These toads failed to eat the target ...

In 1978, cane toads, which are native to South and Central America, were introduced for pest control to Ishigaki island in Okinawa prefecture in Japan. These poisonous toads secrete deadly toxins, ...

It is early evening in Australia's top end, and a hunter stalks its prey. Keenly alert, the northern quoll follows the sound of rustling in the leaf litter. It must be some kind of frog, the small ...

What may work in Australia’s favor is that cane toads (Rhinella marina), have a weird quirk in their breeding habits, Throb reports. In what would prove to be a very bad idea, cane toads were released ...

Sometimes, good intentions build the ladder to greatness. But sometimes, they pave the road to disaster, and few stories make ...

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 ...

AUSTRALIA is considering building an exclusion fence in an effort to stop the northward advance of one of the country’s most devastating pests, the cane toad. The fence would be built across the neck ...