The 'Peter Pan' tadpoles have voracious appetites for their fellow hatchlings and toad eggs. Genetically modified, cannibal tadpoles may be the solution to Australia’s nearly century-old invasive cane ...

SYDNEY -- For decades, the poisonous cane toad has plagued Australians, breeding rapidly, eating voraciously and bestowing death upon most animals that dare consume it. So officials came up with a ...

Australia’s not the only country with a cane toad problem – the United States, Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and islands in the Pacific and Caribbean also host the species, either through ...

Australia has an overpopulation problem with the cane toad, an alien species that sugar farmers introduced 75 years ago to control pests. Researchers have discovered a new weapon to use against the ...

A controversial Australian politician has proposed that the country’s government pay members of the public to kill cane toads in a bid to help curb the invasive pest. In an open letter to Australian ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s ...