toad
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At one lake, the toad population was still declining and had nearly disappeared.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
A three-year-project to help boost sand dune-living rare beetle and toad numbers is to start later this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Aside from its dramatic claws, the insect's body shares similarities with modern Gelastocoridae, also called toad bugs, which are land-dwelling predators.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
There is a bench shaped like a butterfly, a retaining wall with a snake sculpture, and a green metal gate with an arch in the form of a giant toad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Each toad held a baton, sparkling with the prismatic light of anti-cheating magic.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
The fungus is responsible for chytridiomycosis, a disease that damages the skin of frogs and toads and disrupts their ability to regulate water, salts, and minerals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
To better understand why some populations recover while others continue to collapse, researchers studied common midwife toads living around four lakes in the Pyrenees of France and Spain that had all experienced severe Bd outbreaks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
A Level 4 decision, such as how to save a population of rare toads, might involve using the Conservation Evidence database that Sutherland created showing what works to protect species and habitats.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
Volunteers at two sites in Wrexham - Ruthin Road and Brymbo - regularly give up their evenings between February and May to help gather and move toads, frogs and newts.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
They crouched in place, sizing each other up before carefully placing their toads on the rubber rainbow track but not letting go just yet.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
