Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Brought in to address a problem, cane toads now represent ...

The Great Plains Toad (Anaxyrus {Bufo} cognatus) is one of nine species of “true” toads that occur in Texas. It can be observed throughout two main eco-regions in Texas; the first being the plains of ...

Today we discuss the biggest toad you’ve ever seen, the giant toad. The giant toad is also known as the cane toad in English. In Spanish, it’s sapo gigante or sapo de caña, which are exact ...

What’s new: Recent expeditions in Vietnam and China have unveiled two new species of toads with teeth: the Mount Po Ma Lung toothed toad and the Yanyuan toothed toad. These toads, characterized by an ...

Visitors to national parks in the southwest keep kissing frogs, but they’re not hoping they’ll turn into a prince. The rare Sonoran desert toad, also known as the Colorado river toad, naturally ...

There are a lot of critters in Texas that folks down here have given interesting, if somewhat puzzling hybrid names. Yes, we have both toads and frogs but in spite of football traditions and other ...