One day, when this NewsWorks reporter was in the third grade, the boys, in a well-coordinated mass attack, put earthworms in the desk of every girl except one. I was the girl they left out. It turned ...

After a major mating in the Roxborough Reservoir, the youngest spawn of Upper Roxborugh’s American Toads are moving out into the neighborhood. This spring, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental ...

A short visit to Gustavus in mid-July yielded a diversity of interesting observations. My friend had a report of toads near a gravel pit, so we went out to see. We found the place teeming with human ...

When one thinks of Levittown in the 1960s and 1970s, one thinks of a suburban community where kids played in the street until “called for” by parents, tightly knit neighborhood communities and the ...

Despite storm warnings, devoted “Toad Detour” volunteers took to the streets of Upper Roxborough Thursday to help thousands of toadlets cross the intersection of Port Royal Avenue and Eva Street. For ...

Pumpkin toadlets are very bad at jumping, often losing balance mid-air and crash landing awkwardly. Researchers have determined that this is due to the size of their inner ear canals, the area of the ...

When a group of biologists realized that pumpkin toadlets had no middle ear bone, the team was stumped. That meant that these tiny, toxic frogs couldn’t hear each other’s high-pitched chirps, which is ...

Pumpkin toadlets (Brachycephalus ephippium) inhabit Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, where they crawl through the leaf litter in search of mates. However, researchers found that they can’t hear their own ...

Stand in awe of the small but mighty pumpkin toadlet. He might only be an inch long, but his skin is packed with some of the most potent toxins on Earth. Strutting proudly through the mulch, he lets ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

In the bid to find a mate on the busy forest floor, it pays to be able to shout louder than the rest. But there is one type of amphibian, the adorably-named pumpkin toadlet, that whispers rather than ...