Juan Jesús Gonzalez Ahumada (Spain) watches as toad tadpoles feast on a dead fledgling sparrow. Drama unfolded near Juan’s home when a newly fledged sparrow launched itself from a nest on his ...

The very common American toad is easily recognized by the warts all over its back and sides and by a ... Toads use all sorts of water bodies to deposit their long strings of eggs. Since hatching and ...

Common toads and natterjack toads live in Britain ... and remain in their larval tadpole state as an adult. This means that axolotls retain their gills and can spend much more time in the water ...

A carnivorous amphibian, the Puerto Rican crested toad feeds on a variety of arachnids and insects, including ants, beetles, crickets, and spiders. Tadpoles aren’t very picky either, and will ...

Young frogs and toads, after they first hatch from eggs, are called tadpoles. Over the next two weeks they change dramatically, called metamorphosis. First, tadpoles grow back legs ...

The toad’s prolific breeding habits soon replace such losses. To do the job properly, other methods are needed. And one which is gaining ground is tadpole trapping. Toads live in dense ...

The zoo says it first became involved with PRCT conservation efforts in 1984, and then started breeding and reintroduction ...