The UK's toad population could be facing a bleak future because of a deadly fungal disease. The deadly chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is highly effective at causing extinctions ...

The natterjack toad, the UK's loudest amphibian, has made a "remarkable comeback" at a national park in southern England. It follows a conservation project at the South Downs National Park to provide ...

Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over fifty common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 meters high. Volunteers surveying dormice and ...

According to new research, populations of the common toad (Bufo bufo), are declining at dangerous rates in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The common toad is no longer as common as it used to be.

Every year, thousands of common toads, frogs and newts awaken from their winter hibernation and make the perilous journey back to their ancestral breeding ponds. On mild, damp evenings between January ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...