The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today seeking protections for the ...

California high school sports fans have spoken, choosing the Coalinga Horned Toads as the best mascot in the state. Coalinga (population 17,465) won the contest with 72,114 votes, while Hollister ...

Preface -- General account -- Common names -- Present classifications -- Scientific name -- Specific evaluation of our North American forms -- Range -- Habitat ...

More than 100 toads flew over California last week on their way to a new home: a remote meadow in Yosemite National Park where the amphibians previously thrived but had not been seen in over a decade.

DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, Calif. — When you’re as rare and vulnerable as a black toad, you can’t afford to be coy about romance. Surrounded by an unforgiving desert and forever isolated on a small patch of ...