During February and March, volunteers head out after dark with buckets and florescent jackets to stand on roads across the UK ...

Watch this clip from the BBC Wales Nature blog to find out if you can tell the difference between a toad and a frog. Generally, common toads (Bufo bufo) are widespread in mainland Britain.

Karen, a charity worker, found the common toad inside the Taste the Difference bag which she had bought from the retailer’sSittingbourne branch in the town centre. She said: “I was in shock.

I always called him Mr Toad. He was much better pest control than a whole shed full of chemicals. George Orwell shared my love of the common toad (Bufo bufo). In the year I was born — 1946 — Orwell ...

The common frog is found throughout Britain and Ireland, as well as much of Europe, while the common toad also has a large European range but is absent from Ireland. Common frogs can be found anywhere ...

From above, the oriental fire-bellied toad seems fairly nondescript—a green ... and you might croak.” One of the most common amphibians in its primary range, oriental fire-bellied toads ...

When most people think of spiders, the word ‘friend’ may be one of the last ones to come to mind. However, if you were a ...

Once considered a common western garden amphibian, the large, warty boreal toad has recently experienced dramatic population declines, suffering across its U.S. range from threats like habitat ...

Numbers of the common toad are declining in the UK, often because they are killed as they travel back to breeding ponds A group which has helped save hundreds of toads is looking for more people ...

What’s in a name? When it comes to sea turtles, it turns out, a pretty distinguishing trait. “The animal kingdom is filled ...