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Three newly-identified toad species in Tanzania give birth to live young, skipping the frogspawn and tadpole stages — an "exceptionally rare" trait among toads and frogs. When you purchase through ...

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The toad emerges during the monsoon season because it needs water to reproduce. The Sonoran Desert toad, found in Arizona, has psychedelic properties. In this week's podcast of Valley 101, we If ...

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They’re here. Everywhere. Their presence is betrayed by a boisterous symphony that provides a soundtrack to our journey through this vast expanse of wilderness—birds singing, insects buzzing, frogs ...

In a forest of southern China, a “long”-limbed creature tucked itself into a rocky crevice near a stream and began “chirping.” Its “large” multicolored eyes scanned the surrounding landscape, but it ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “long” arms in a rocky crevice in a forest of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Lu Chen via Liu, Chen, Xu and Wu (2025) In a ...

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