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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 ...

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 ...

In 1935, Australia introduced the cane toad as a means of controlling the sugar cane beetle population. But it backfired—not only did it fail to fix the beetle problem, but much worse ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Genetically modified, cannibal tadpoles may be the solution to Australia’s nearly century-old invasive cane toad problem ...

He said cane toad tadpoles were known to be voracious cannibals with a preference for snacking on their kin, both in egg and hatchling form. This is especially true in Australia where rates of ...

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It’ll probably become extinct within the next 10 years without this technology. They eat cane toads, which were introduced to Australia, and they die from the cane toad toxin. We and our ...

To address the issue that cane toads present, researchers are developing bioengineered toads that never reach maturity. Referred to as “Peter Pan toads,” these genetically altered animals live for ...

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.