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A close-up picture of a cane toad's head.

Annual cane toad kill-a-thon is about to start in Australia. Here's how to eliminate the pests humanely.

By Sascha Pare published

Instead of bludgeoning Australia's invasive cane toads to death, scientists advise popping them in the fridge for a day or two before transferring them to the freezer to finish them off.

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A woman holds a 6-pound cane toad found in a national park.

'Monster cane toad' dubbed 'Toadzilla' found in Australia

By Jennifer Nalewicki published

Rangers in Australia stumbled upon a giant cane toad resembling a "football with legs"

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Taiwan is currently fighting to contain an invasion of toxic cane toads (Rhinella marina).

Toxic cane toads are invading Taiwan. Conservationists race to contain warty amphibians.

By Harry Baker published

Taiwan is racing to contain an outbreak of invasive cane toads, which likely escaped from a black market breeder.

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The cane toad (Rhinella marina) is an invasive species in Australia, where its tadpoles have become voracious cannibals.

Cannibal toads eat so many of their young, they're speeding up evolution

By Laura Geggel published

Competition is so fierce Down Under, the invasive cane toad has become a mega-cannibal.

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A small-banded kukri snake with its head inserted through the right side of the abdomen of an Asian black-spotted toad, in order to extract and eat the organs. Tissue of a collapsed lung (above, left), and possibly fat tissue, is covered by clear liquid that foams as it mixes with air bubbles from the lung. The upper part of the front leg is likewise covered by foaming blood, mixed with air bubbles from the collapsed lung.

Snakes disembowel toads and feast on the living animal's organs one by one

By Mindy Weisberger published

For the first time, scientists have observed snakes disemboweling toads to dine on their organs.

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Gory Photo Shows How a Mystery Predator Turned a Toad Inside Out

By Mindy Weisberger published

A nature walk near a reservoir in the U.K. recently took a gruesome turn.

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This Toxic Toad Could End Up Killing the Predators on Madagascar

By Mindy Weisberger published

The Asian common toad toxic threat to native species in Madagascar.

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A toad with no face "kept hopping into things," according to the herpetologist who found it.

Experts Are Stumped by the Toad with a Stump for a Face

By Mindy Weisberger published

Why does this toad have no face?

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Toad throwing up beetle

Toad Eats Beetle, Immediately Regrets It — Watch Retching Aftermath

By Laura Geggel published

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A western toad (Anaxyrus boreas halophilus) sticking it's head out of pond.

Animal Sex: How Western Toads Do It

By Joseph Castro published

Western toad sex involves quiet searches, mating balls and streams of eggs.

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