“If you look at the iguana, there’s a circle on the side of its head that’s actually a really good aiming point,” he says.

The toxic cane toad has placed evolutionary pressure on snakes to adapt their body shape, Australian researchers say. Evolutionary biologist Ben Phillips and PhD supervisor Professor Richard Shine of ...

Australia imported cane toads in 1935 to save sugarcane, but the plan failed and became one of the country’s worst ecological ...

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...