Nintendo of Japan has released a new introduction video for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, its December-due Wii U game starring Toad from the Mario franchise. The game has Toad running about 70 ...

1935: Cane toads brought to Australia to control Queensland’s cane beetles. Sugar cane was brought to Australia by the First Fleet in 1788. There were repeated small-scale attempts to grow the crop ...

An introduction to the bufo or cane toad Cane toads were brought to Florida in the 50s to eat pests in sugar fields. Instead, the toxic species has injured and killed dogs and other pets.

We and our international colleagues have deciphered the genetic code of the cane toad. The complete sequence, published today in the journal GigaScience, will help us understand how the toad can ...

When cane toads were released in Australia in 1935, they were the latest innovation in pest control, backed by a level of consensus support that a scientist could only dream of. So what went wrong?

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 ...

Since their introduction in 1935 in an attempt to control cane beetles that were devastating Queensland’s cane sugar crops, cane toads (Rhinella marina) have significantly multiplied and spread, ...

IT COULD be one of the world’s most unfairly maligned creatures. Despite its invasion of Australia, the cane toad has not triggered the overwhelming ecological disaster that some predicted. Cane toads ...