SOUTHWICK, Mass. (WWLP) – Eggs and recently hatched tadpoles were confirmed after an area was set up in Southwick six years ago to breed the state-threatened eastern spadefoot. The eastern spadefoot, ...

Many animals have curious adaptations that give them an advantage in surviving the natural world in which they inhabit. One such amphibian that exhibits this type of adaptation is common right here in ...

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, ...

Buried deep beneath the parched desert soils near Kamloops, BC, a female spadefoot toad waits for her moment — the sounds of a specific alarm clock — raindrops. Spadefoots eke out a living in some of ...

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 ...