Australian researchers have developed an "innovative method of conservation" for yellow-spotted monitor lizards. They trained the predators not to eat the highly toxic cane toads which could kill them ...

Georgia Ward-Fear receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Rick Shine receives funding from the Australian Research Council. It’s a common refrain – western ecologists should work ...

Cane toads spell big trouble in Australia—not just for humans, who consider them an invasive species, but for greedy, omnivorous monitor lizards, who die when they eat the poisonous toads. Now, ...

Many of us know of one or more animals we grew up with that just aren’t around anymore. One of them? The state reptile of Texas – horned lizards … or, as we like to call them, “horny toads.” These ...