Cane toad tadpoles mostly live on algae and bacteria ... attracted by the same toxin that makes the adults poisonous to others. Shine’s team developed traps that draw tadpoles to them using the same ...

Joshua Prieto / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Scientists in Australia have genetically modified invasive cane toad eggs to create “Peter Pan” tadpoles that never grow up—they ...

The science inspires too, if it works. A man, a plan, a Peter Pan, and goodbye cane toad. Maybe. Forever a tadpole, never a toad. The man is Professor Rick Shine, an evolutionary biologist and ...

Scientists have gene-edited a cane toad egg to prevent a hatchling growing past the tadpole stage. The gene knockout technique could be scaled up and potentially used to manage the invasive species.