Last year, Cynthia Berger tried for an autumn spinach harvest in her Pennsville, Pennsylvania. garden. The pests got there first. "It was slug city," says Berger. The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned ...

Wyoming toads — one of the most endangered amphibians in North America — are slowly making a comeback because of the work of conservation groups. Those efforts leaped forward when the Hutton Lake ...

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 ...