The female cane toad can pump herself up to mega-size to throw off smaller males striving to mate with her, Australian biologists said. The unusual tactic suggests that female anurans, as frogs and ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — At the Fort Worth Zoo, a little lab is tucked away just feet away from the reptile and amphibians exhibits. It's where Allison Julien spends hours each day facilitating in vitro ...

Wildfires can modify habitat attributes, and those changes may differentially affect males versus females within a species if there is pre-existing niche divergence between the sexes. We used ...

Among many species, breeding preferences and tactics can differ among males and females. When aggressive behavior by males toward unreceptive females goes awry, it may result in failure to reproduce, ...

Cane toads are one of Australia’s most notorious pests, but back in the day Australian scientists found ways to make them useful. CANE TOADS WERE introduced into Australia in 1935 and by the 1950s ...