Cane toads secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including dogs and cats.

The winning entrant's bag this year weighed in at over 25 kilograms, and collectively, the entire group caught an astonishing 96kg worth of cane toads in just a couple of hours.

On a tropical island off the Queensland coast, locals love to hate one of Australia's most infamous pests. For more than 50 years, revellers have flocked to Magnetic Island for its cane toad races — ...

In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a ...

Volunteers in Darwin have chipped in to capture more than 1,000 cane toads at one of the city's main attractions.

The community is being asked to collect, euthanise and hand in the destructive pests as part of the annual Great Cane Toad ...

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Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Scientists are working to protect a relict fish found in only one far north Queensland river catchment. The Bloomfield River cod is the only tropical freshwater cod in the world and may have been ...

Cold weather in the Fort Myers-Naples area may cause invasive iguanas to fall from trees. Temperatures below 50 degrees can incapacitate cold-blooded reptiles like iguanas and cane toads. While the ...

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled glass-snail on Australia’s ...