In the spring of 2005, common toads in Germany and Denmark began dying in a violent and highly unusual way. Witnesses ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

BERLIN - What's making toads puff up and explode in northern Europe? More than 1,000 toad corpses have been found at a pond in an upscale neighborhood in Hamburg and over the border in Denmark after ...

Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday: they exploded. According to reports from animal-welfare workers and veterinarians, as many ...