When threatened or startled, the Colorado River toad (also called the Sonoran desert toad) exudes 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic compound that discourages predators, from glands in its skin. Similar ...

For generations, Nevada’s big-eyed, black-freckled Dixie Valley toad thrived in a small desert oasis, hidden from humans. But by the time scientists described it in 2017, the toad was already ...

The short-horned lizard is often referred to as a “horned toad” or “horny toad” because its squat, flattened shape and short, blunt snout give it a toad-ish look. There are over a dozen ...

A narrow patch of land stands between the invasive species and the Pilbara – 27 million hectares where native species thrive.

Congress designated the area in 1976, and the 1994 California Desert Protection Act further increased protection ... close a sand and gravel mine threatening the arroyo southwestern toad, require the ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

About 600 kilometres south in the Great Sandy Desert, the Paruku Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is gearing up for a cane toad surge. Paruku, or Lake Gregory, is the only lake in the semi-arid ...

Plug leaks in 150 agricultural water points down a long dry strip of land south of Broome bordered by the sea and the Great Sandy Desert, and the cane toad invasion will come to a stop – 90 ...