FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise. The vaquita, meaning ...

Heritage railways across the UK will be hosting special events in 2025 to celebrate 80 years of Thomas The Tank Engine. Among the Day Out With Thomas activities, families will be able to enjoy a real ...

The Library of Congress has given Mac Barnett the job of promoting books and reading to kids across the country. His plan is ...

As weird as it sounds, there are dozens of stories of animals, especially toads, found in rocks. Can this really be real?

Xishui leaf-litter toads are considered “moderate”-sized, reaching about 1.5 inches in length, the study said. They have textured bodies with bumps and raised ridges. Their limbs are “slender” with ...

Literacy is a gift we give our children. It’s reading a poem by, say, Joseph Bruchac and understanding not just the words, ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...

Scientists have now identified it as a new species of leaf litter toad, according to a study published Jan. 16 in the peer-reviewed journal Zoosystematics and Evolution. Researchers described ...