The Calvert Marine Museum’s Estuarine Biology Department has published findings from a 2025 study that used nighttime ...

PROVIDENCE — The eastern spadefoot toad is a state-endangered animal in Rhode Island that is known to populate only a handful of sites around the state. But a newly-employed detection technique is ...

New research has upended the conventional wisdom that for a century has incorrectly guided the study of a toad listed as endangered in part of its range. Research by a graduate student in Oregon State ...

Ian Ives wants to get close enough to a spadefoot toad to see the glint in its eye. Who wouldn't want to lock eyes with a comely spadefoot toad, no better way to find a prince or a princess. That's ...

In the 1980s, a rare and elusive amphibian called the spadefoot toad vanished from its habitat in Falmouth. For the last decade, conservationists have tried to bring it back. Now they believe they’ve ...

When rain falls and water is plentiful, the sex lives of plains spadefoot toads are pretty, well, plain. Females prowl ponds for the suitor with the most winsome call; they pair off to couple, ...

The Eastern spadefoot toad, actually a primitive frog, may not be so rare after all according to a study by University of Rhode Island researchers who used a seldom-used methodology that turned up ...