Every year, thousands of common toads, frogs and newts awaken from their winter hibernation and make the perilous journey back to their ancestral breeding ponds. On mild, damp evenings between January ...

The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group helped nearly 4,000 toads, frogs and newts across a half-mile stretch of a road during this year’s migration season. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep ...

Volunteers have saved 650 toads from a “massacre” in an East Sussex village. The residents of Litlington, near Eastbourne, have mobilised patrols to protect migrating toads as they cross the main road ...

Fears are growing that more than 1,000 toads may have died after a reservoir in north Wales was drained during peak breeding season, prompting concern among conservation groups over the impact on ...

Volunteers saw the third-highest number of amphibians recorded since an annual road closure began.

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...