Adult females successfully deposit up to 20,000 individual eggs within a single reproductive cycle. Maintaining the amplexus posture creates a technical hurdle during the critical external ...

Meet the Surinam Toad, a five-inch-long amphibian that lives in South America. Once the female toad’s eggs are fertilized by the male, they embed in her back, which transforms into a honeycomb-like ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — At the Fort Worth Zoo, a little lab is tucked away just feet away from the reptile and amphibians exhibits. It's where Allison Julien spends hours each day facilitating in vitro ...

Toads are fascinating creatures for several different reasons, but their reproduction process is easily one of the most interesting. Rather than simply laying eggs, they lay meter-long strings of eggs ...