As a nature photographer for many years, I’ve become aware of certain subjects outdoor shutterbugs cannot resist. One is a toad and its tongue. Is it the stickiness they find so appealing? Or the ...

A couple of years ago, in the forests of Connecticut, a team of zoologists were searching for newts. On one particular day, what caught their eye was not a newt, but a toad. A toad without a face. Yep ...

Two years ago, graduate student and herpetologist Jill Fleming was collecting data on Eastern red-spotted newts in a Connecticut forest when she spotted something strange: a faceless toad. The adult ...

A toad found in a state forest in Connecticut startled researchers in the field because it had no face. The amphibian, an adult American toad, was hopping into the researchers’ feet and other objects ...

Video of a headless toad jumping around a Connecticut forest is making waves online after a researcher uploaded the footage to Twitter last week — and it’s left scientists stumped. The adult toad was ...

A headless toad has been found in a state forest that baffled researchers because it has no face. A state forest in Connecticut was home for an adult headless American toad that was found hopping ...

A researcher doing fieldwork recounted coming across an unusual toad jumping and walking around the forest without a “face.” Herpetologist and University of Massachusetts at Amherst student Jill ...

Researchers were surprised when they ran across a toad in a forest in Connecticut with no face. The species was an adult American toad and kept jumping into the researchers while they were trying to ...