A small-banded kukri snake seen with its head thrust inside the body of an Asian common toad. This snake does this to feed on its prey's internal organs, and, perhaps, to avoid the poisonous milky ...

While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to have evolved a particularly macabre feeding habit that has never before been witnessed in a ...

Bufo periglenes, a toad endemic to montane Costa Rica, produces an unusually small clutch of large, yolk-rich eggs. The toads breed in small ephemeral pools that are unpredictable in duration and may ...

Cane toads swallow prey using a complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle that travels so far down their throat, it butts up against their heart. The authors used X-ray videography to study the ...

Toads may be the ugly ducklings of the amphibian world, but what they lack in beauty they make up for in pure insect-eating prowess. Slugs, snails, weevils, beetles— just about any nighttime muncher ...

DESCRIPTION: The Amargosa toad has a warty back with a light, mid-dorsal stripe and black speckling on a background ranging widely in color from buff to olive. Its underside is whitish with scattered ...

Rick Shine receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the University of Sydney. Eighty years ago, an agricultural scientist named Reginald Mungomery brought cane toads to Australia, ...

While it's anatomically impossible for a human to swallow their tongue, a new study shows that cane toads (Rhinella marina) achieve this feat each time they eat. Cane toads swallow prey using a ...