Ian Ives wants to get close enough to a spadefoot toad to see the glint in its eye. Who wouldn't want to lock eyes with a comely spadefoot toad, no better way to find a prince or a princess. That's ...

RICHMOND — The eastern spadefoot toad has brilliant feline eyes, a comical honking call and, as its name suggests, shovel-like protrusions on its hind legs that it uses to expertly burrow into the ...

In the 1980s, a rare and elusive amphibian called the spadefoot toad vanished from its habitat in Falmouth. For the last decade, conservationists have tried to bring it back. Now they believe they’ve ...