Scientists have knocked out genes that trigger cane ... traps that draw tadpoles to them using the same chemical. Now widely available, these have proven valuable in keeping toad numbers under ...

As well as suffering the same range of threats facing animals worldwide, our frogs continue to battle a deadly fungal disease ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Katy ...

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 ...

But here’s the hard truth: bootstrapping can become a trap. It might keep the lights on, but it can also keep your growth dialed way down. If you’ve ever felt like you’re running in place ...

The hatchlings instead stay in the tadpole stage for months longer than usual, during which cane toads practice cannibalism and feed on their own kind. If this gene editing can be scaled up, releasing ...

“We’ve been able to engineer the genome of northern quolls to be resistant to cane toad toxin,” Professor Pask said. “Northern quolls are likely to go extinct within the next decade ...

A diet study by Frank Mizzotti at UF found that the lizards even ingest poisonous invasive cane toads, with seemingly ... Biologists have been able to trap the population in Cape Coral, but ...

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