toad
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After rainfall, Miyazawa came across an Eastern Japanese toad making its way along a city street.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In Nevada, opponents launched a lawsuit over a gold mine they say will threaten a rare toad and fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Also detailed in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is the first record of another amphibian: the Mexican burrowing toad —Rhinophrynus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
At one lake, the toad population was still declining and had nearly disappeared.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Gran conjured a pendant of a toad with a mustache, and it attached itself to Seven’s cloak.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Comparisons with modern spadefoot toads eventually convinced him that the differences represented something else entirely.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The miracle behind Cruz’s discovery is that amphibians such as frogs, toads and salamanders rarely make it into the fossil records because of their fragile skeletons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In hard-hit areas like Le Porge, experts say insects will have perished en masse and larger creatures from toads to lizards will not have been spared either.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Last week the government announced several projects it was funding to protect threatened species including a scheme aiming to increase the numbers of northern dune tiger beetles and natterjack toads in Cumbria.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“You mightn’t like being toads at first,” the enchantress said reasonably.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
