Photographer Pauk Hobson's striking monochrome toad image – shot from a hidden, floor-up perspective and recorded with a DSLR that turns 14 years old – just took one of the UK's top prizes, and was ...

The tiny, thumbnail-sized tadpoles of the cane toad grow into adults that are among the largest amphibians, requiring both hands to pick one up, according to John Wiens, who took this photo in Costa ...

A cane toad sits in the grass. Cane toads were brought to Australia from South America in the 1930s to fight off insects that ate the crops. Unfortunately the cane toad didn't have any effect on the ...