Having failed to meet a deadline and getting sued for it, a federal agency Wednesday agreed to decide whether to list a rare Nevada toad as a threatened or endangered species within the next two ...

RENO (AP) – Northern Nevada, with its hot, dry summers and desert terrain, is hardly thought of as a paradise for toads. But that’s what it’s become, this year anyway, thanks to two wet winters and a ...

Trout raised in hatcheries can pass a deadly fungus to amphibians, researchers have found. The discovery bolsters suspicion that stocking lakes for sportfishing could be contributing to a global ...

As I wandered around a beaver pond one day in mid-September, I noticed something small and dark moving slowly through the grass and weeds. It was a toadlet, just recently transformed from a tadpole.

RENO, Nev. – Federal officials announced Thursday that a rare plant found in three Western states warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, and a toad found only in Nevada will be studied ...

Western toads have begun to pop their heads above streams adjacent to the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory in preparation for their great migration. Each year, thousands of toadlets emerge from ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— In response to a 2012 petition and 11 years of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the western spadefoot as ...