According to new research, populations of the common toad (Bufo bufo), are declining at dangerous rates in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The common toad is no longer as common as it used to be.

The UK's toad population could be facing a bleak future because of a deadly fungal disease. The deadly chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is highly effective at causing extinctions ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...

Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over fifty common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 meters high ...