A rare toad changed the fate of a river by becoming the first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam. It's now in trouble.

The admirable little red-bellied toad is the size of a thumb, but it has achieved giant feats: In 2014, it prevented the ...

Snakes, scorpions and toads are among the stowaways a rescue charity has collected from suitcases and shipping containers ...

Cutter described the invasive pests as "incredibly tough amphibians", capable of surviving a broad temperature range from ...

In a small stretch of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil lives a bright-orange species of frog that’s new to science, ...

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of ...

During summer in the Portage region, amphibians and reptiles are hard to miss. From choruses of toads and slithering garter snakes to painted turtles lined up on logs in the sunlight, the animals are ...

Warts are one of those skin conditions almost everyone encounters at some point, yet they remain oddly misunderstood. One day ...

Japanese researchers have discovered a bacterium found in frogs and lizards that can attack colorectal cancer tumours, ...

When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By ...

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On public health concerns, FSSAI cited scientific evidence indicating that there is no established causal link between trace-level dietary exposure to nitrofuran metabolites and cancer or other advers ...