A probiotic treatment has been shown to effectively inoculate endangered Colorado toads and protect them from a virulent fungus that has ravaged the population in recent decades, according to the ...

Wildlife biologists recently discovered rare toads are naturally repopulating in a high mountain lake where captively raised tadpoles were transplanted for several years. Staff from the Colorado Parks ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo.—Number 146227157A struggled and chirped, clearly unhappy about being plucked from the bushes to be swabbed and scanned. This mountain ...

It's the signature Colorado animal you know nothing about: the endangered boreal toad. It's normal to see people lugging massive backpacks up a Colorado trail toward beautiful scenic views. It's not ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BROWNS CREEK WATERFALL — Thousands of 1-inch black boreal toad tadpoles this week wriggled into a high alpine bog beneath mountain peaks, seemingly pristine ...

Call it high-altitude kombucha: CU Boulder biologist Valerie McKenzie has developed a probiotic solution that inoculates boreal toads from a virulent infection. Once common throughout the Mountain ...

The boreal toad, Colorado’s only species of toad, lives in spruce-fir forests, and alpine meadows in high-altitudes primarily between 8,000-11,500 feet. In Colorado, the largest populations are ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado ” The endangered boreal toad is finally getting its awareness campaign, as zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums around the world have designated 2008 as the Year of the Frog.

A program to breed, recover and restore populations of the endangered boreal toad hit a new milestone last month through a ...

DENVER, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Colorado's boreal toad is no longer a candidate for the federal endangered-species list -- good news for ski-slope developers and even for the toad. The warty, high-elevation ...

Behind a gate at the edge of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in City Park is the Boreal Toad Conservation Center, a building colloquially known by zoo staff as the “Toad Barn.” Inside, awkward ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — As monsoon weather (hopefully) continues to show its face in Tucson, you may see an increase in a particular desert dweller - the Colorado River Toad. The toad is most active in ...