Adult females successfully deposit up to 20,000 individual eggs within a single reproductive cycle. Maintaining the amplexus posture creates a technical hurdle during the critical external ...

Meet the Surinam Toad, a five-inch-long amphibian that lives in South America. Once the female toad’s eggs are fertilized by the male, they embed in her back, which transforms into a honeycomb-like ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A critically endangered Puerto Rican toad was born for the first time via in vitro fertilization as U.S. scientists attempt to save it from extinction, officials announced ...

Reproductive arrangements don’t get much stranger than those of the Batura toad of Pakistan. The entire species is the result of two unknown species interbreeding, and each toad carries three sets of ...