The Detroit Zoological Society’s breeding program for the Wyoming toad has produced a record 3,945 tadpoles for release into the wild in its efforts to preserve the federally endangered amphibian.

In southeast Wyoming's Mortenson Lake, there's a death match going on between the amphibian chytrid fungus and the Wyoming toad, one of the most endangered amphibians in the United States. Observers ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America.

MORTENSON LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE — In this high and marshy landscape of plains lakes southwest of Laramie lies a haven for the federally endangered Wyoming toad. Mortenson Lake National ...

Federal authorities have unveiled the establishment of two recently inaugurated national wildlife refuges in Wyoming and Tennessee, serving as critical sanctuaries for endangered and threatened ...

Como Park Zoo released its most critically endangered amphibian – the Wyoming toad – back into the wild Thursday. In an effort to preserve the rare toad, the St. Paul zoo placed more than 1,300 ...

Wyoming toads are rare and, in the wild, live only in a wildlife refuge west of Laramie. Scientists thought them to be extinct in the wild just a couple of decades ago. But an effort that the Cheyenne ...

Federal wildlife officials released almost a thousand small, green Wyoming toads Wednesday, in a bid to restore a species once thought extinct. It was the largest release of adult toads in the state, ...

A national wildlife refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., is being invaded by 4,000 baby toads, thanks to preservation efforts at St. Paul’s Como Zoo. For the third year in a row, zoo officials have released ...

Two weeks ago, Como Zoo workers packaged up 4,002 Wyoming toad tadpoles and sent them off, via FedEx overnight, to be released in the wilds of Wyoming. They arrived in good condition. Como is one of ...

The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America. But now, at least, it will have more room to recover: On ...