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I post daily(ish) facts about toads! My profile photo is an Anaxyrus americanus by Simon Pierre Barrette! Also find us at @toadfacts@toad.social on Mastodon!
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Our friend the Sulawesian Toad is a welcome sight on the cacao plantations of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi because they love to eat invasive yellow crazy ants! (photo by Muhammad Idris)
A rough-skinned brown toad sitting on moist pebbles! They are covered in widely spaced spiny bumps and have a crest from the tip of their nose, over their eyes, and connecting to their large parotoid glands! The crest gets very large near the parotoid glands and is nearly the size of the glands themselves!
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Our friend the Great Plains Toad is a very common toad who lives in a large area from the Canadian Prairies through the Great Plains of the United States and into northern Mexico! They are a large toad, growing to 4.5 inches long! (photo by Jeremiah Degenhardt)
A very stout, tan colored toad covered in dark green and light green splotches! They are covered in lots of small spiny bumps!
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Our friend the Hispaniolan Armored Toad was first described in 2018 and is only known from a single location in the Dominican Republic! Their skin is very rough and bumpy, and they have prominent armored ridges on their head, giving them their name! (photo by Judá Isaí Martínez Uribe)
A stout, tan-colored toad with very rough skin! They are covered in lots of spiky bumps and have a large ridge running from the tip of their pointy nose and around their eyes! They have rather green eyes with a horizontal pupil!
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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In 2025 the Puerto Rican music artist Bad Bunny released an album named DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS! Videos for this album featured a character named Sapo Concho, named after the real life Sapo Concho, the endangered Puerto Rican Crested Toad!

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Sapo Concho, an anthropomorphic Puerto Rican Crested Toad, sitting on the edge of an expanded metal table, wearing tiny grey coveralls! He is eating a quesito, a Puerto Rican pastry made with puff pastry and sweetened cream cheese! Still taken from BAD BUNNY - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Short Film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLSzEYVDads A real-life Puerto Rican Crested Toad, Peltophryne lemur! A rough-skinned yellow toad with small black markings on the tops of each of their warty looking spots! They have a prominent crest that runs from the tip of their upturned nose across the tops of their eyes!
February 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Our friend the North American Green Toad lives in a large area between northern Mexico and the south-central United States! They are also known as the Chihuahuan Green Toad! They have two recognized subspecies, the Eastern Green Toad and the Western Green Toad! (photo by Jorden Perrett)
A very very plump toad! They are light green on their back with lots of small black splotches, and creamy white on their belly!
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Our friend Lau's Leaf Litter Toad lives in Hong Kong and is known to perform sex-reversed inguinal amplexus, where the female mounts the male from behind and holds his waist while laying her eggs! (photo by C.H.Leung)
A small brown toad with dark brown splotches sitting on a large rock! They have a somewhat large head relative to their size, large eyes, and are covered in lots of round, warty bumps!
February 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Our friend the Dixie Valley Toad lives in a small area of wetlands in the Dixie Valley in northern Nevada! They were first described as a new species in 2017 and immediately placed on the endangered species list to protect their home, which is under threat due to development! (photo by Yinan Li)
A small tan colored toad covered in small black splotches! Each splotch contains red warty bumps! They are rather stout and have small oval-shaped parotoid glands!
February 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Our friend the Betic Midwife Toad lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of southern Spain! Like other midwife toads, males collect fertilized eggs and wrap them around their hind legs to keep them safe until they are ready to hatch! (photo by Víctor González García)
A grey toad with mottled greenish brown markings! They have large eyes with vertical pupils! They have a clutch of eggs between their hind legs!
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Our friend the São Bento Toad is a common toad who lives in the Atlantic rainforests of the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil! (photo by Mathias Hofstatter)
A rough-skinned brown toad with very stout front and rear legs! They are sitting on bright green moss!
February 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Our friend the Short-nosed Toad lives in the state of Karnataka in the Western Ghats of India! They are also known as the Kempholey Toad and Rao's Pale Brown Toad! (photo by Girish Gowda)
A rough-skinned brown toad! They have small markings of lighter brown color all over their body! Their nose does not appear to be particularly short, despite their name!
January 30, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Our friend the Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad is a small toad who lives in the eastern United States from Maryland to Florida! They love to eat ants and have developed a fold of skin on their back that can extend to cover their eyes to protect from bites while feeding! (photo by Dominic)
A very plump, smooth-skinned, brown toad with a rounded triangular shape! They have a large flap of skin on their back that is almost covering their eyes!
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Our friend the Southern Toad is a common toad who lives on the coastal plain of the southeast United States! They are most easily distinguished from other local toads by the knobs and backward-pointing spurs on their head! (photo by Eli McEuen)
A greenish brown toad with black markings! They are covered in lots of spiny bumps, and along their cheeks and sides the spiny bumps are a slight reddish color! They have large triangular knobs on top of their head behind their eyes!
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Our friend the Hot Creek Toad lives in a narrow canyon in a remote habitat in the Hot Creek mountain range in central Nevada! They were first described as a new species in 2020! (photo by Yinan Li)
A dark olive-green toad with lots of tiny black spots on their back! They also have a few widely spaced warty bumps and large parotoid glands! They are sitting in shallow water!
January 27, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Our friend the San Lorenzo Stubfoot Toad lives in the northwestern part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Columbia! They are abundant in the small areas in which they live but are only known from three small geographically separated locations! (photo by Elkin Meriño)
A slender green toad with black markings perched on the stem of a plant! They have a long triangular nose that is rounded on the end! They have lots of pebbly bumps all over their body!
January 26, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Our friend the Sambas Stream Toad is also known as the Bornean Rainbow Toad! They were once believed to be extinct but were rediscovered in 2011 in a small, remote area in western Sarawak in Malaysia! (photo by Oliver Bandz)
A slender toad with long, skinny legs and a square-shaped nose! They are lime green in color with many black spots and black bands on their legs! They are covered in lots of bright red warty spots!
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Our friend the Bates' Tree Toad is a small toad who spends the day on the ground looking for food but retreats to trees at night! They lay their eggs in water-filled cavities in trees! (photo by Xavier Rufray)
A rough-skinned, lime green toad clinging to a dark green leaf! The toad has white belly and darker green to brown spots on their back! They have a short, rounded nose and very large eyes!
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Our friend the Eastern Flat-backed Toad is a common toad who lives throughout many countries in central Africa! They have a loud, repetitive, quacking call that you can hear here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCD1... (photo by Marius Burger)
A rough-skinned brown toad, with small darker and lighter splotches and a thin light-colored line running down their back!
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Our friend the Yellow Cururu Toad is a large toad who lives in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay! They grow to nearly 7.5 inches long! In this species the males are usually mostly yellow, while females usually have large black splotches! (photo by Alessandher Piva)
A large yellow toad covered in lots of warty bumps! Each of the warty bumps has several tiny black spots! They have a slight ridge running from the tip of their nose and around each eye! They have HUGE parotoid glands, many times larger than their eye! We can tell that this toad is most likely a male because it is mostly yellow!
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Our friend the Chaco Granulated Toad is a relatively common toad who lives in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay! They are named after the Gran Chaco, the vast lowland plains of central South America! (photo by Vincent A. Vos)
A brown toad with slight black crests from the tip of their nose and around their eyes, and very pebbly skin! They have large parotoid glands that are covered in black bumps!
January 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Our friend the Dwarf American Toad is a smaller and redder subspecies of the American Toad who lives in the middle of the United States including Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and northern Texas! (photo by Scott Gravette)
A small reddish-brown toad sitting in shallow water and inflating their vocal sac! They have a slight ridge on top of their head, large parotoid glands, and large eardrums!
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Our friend the Cuban Small-eared Toad is also known as Cope's Caribbean Toad or simply the Cuban Toad! They live in Cuba, including Isla de Juventud! They spend their time underground and are rarely seen except during breeding season! (photo by Kristin A. Bakkegard)
A brown toad with widely spaced warty bumps that have a black spot in each of them! They have large parotoid glands and small, visible eardrums! They are nestled into a small hole in the ground!
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Our friend the Warty Toad lives in the Andes mountains of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru! They live in areas that can reach freezing temperatures at night, and studies have shown they have special body chemistry to help survive cold temperatures! (photo by Felipe Rabanal)
A stout brown toad completely covered in lots of closely spaced spiny bumps! They have very stout legs, end even have spiky bumps on the bottoms of their feet!
January 14, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Our friend the Mesopotamian Beaked Toad lives in the area near the village of Mesopotamia, on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in Colombia! (photo by Felipe Barrera Ocampo)
A person's hand holding a very spiky brown toad! The toad has a lighter brown stripe running the length of their side!
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Our friend the Pine Toad is a common toad found throughout many different habitats in the Central Mexican Plateau! (photo by Rodolfo Maximiliano Gutiérrez-Sánchez)
A brown toad with a sandy back! They have large bean shaped parotoid glands! They are covered in lots of small reddish warty bumps, and also many brown granular bumps! They are next to a pine tree and sitting on pine needles!
January 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Our friend the San Lorenzo Harlequin Toad is rather dull compared to many other Harlequin Toads, which tend to have bright colors! They live in several small areas in high-altitude mountain forests of Colombia! (photo by Alejandro Lopez)
A slender, dark brown toad with a lighter brown stripe running down the side of their back! They have long, skinny legs and a pointed nose! The bottoms of their feet are slightly orange-colored!
January 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM