Among the last photos taken of the golden toad in Costa Rica in 1978. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A beautiful golden toad which lived in the cloud forest of Costa Rica ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Harlequin toads (Atelopus sp) have been decimated by the outbreak of chytridiomycosis, a deadly fungal disease, across Latin America. Between the ...

The Golden Toad of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest, once abundant and brilliantly colored, declined rapidly after the late 1980s. A drying climate linked to El Niño, along with the spread of ...

Scientists broadly agree that global warming may threaten the survival of many plant and animal species; but global warming did not kill the Monteverde golden toad, an often cited example of ...

One of Florentijn Hofman’s giant rubber ducks sat in Hong Kong’s harbor last year, inspiring knock-offs in China. Taking inspiration from the big bird, a 72-foot inflatable yellow toad arrived in ...

BEIJING - The 77-foot-tall golden inflatable toad was supposed to inspire enthusiasm for traditional Chinese art. But no sooner had the replica amphibian been seen floating on a lake in a Beijing park ...

(CNN) – How do social media posts about a giant inflatable toad relate to criticism of a former Chinese President? You just have to understand the secret language ...

In Search of Lost Frogs. By Robin Moore. Firefly Books; 256 pages; $35. Bloomsbury; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk IN 1987 Marty Crump, a biologist working in a cloud forest in Costa Rica, ...