It is becoming increasingly accepted that classic psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and mescaline can act as antidepressants and anti-anxiety treatments in addition to causing ...

Scientists have mapped the structure of a psychedelic drug derived from the Colorado River toad, which seems to have antidepressant effects. Reading time 3 minutes A potential depression treatment ...

Large multi-year study shows that juvenile "taster toads" taught goannas to avoid eating poisonous cane toads, preventing population collapse A landmark study published in the journal Conservation ...

Northern quolls – small carnivorous marsupials – get a cane toad sausage, goannas are fed tiny live toads and freshwater crocodiles receive cane toad legs with a dose of lithium chloride. Back in ...

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Dogs and humans share many qualities, abilities, and emotional predispositions. It is now becoming clear that dogs and humans may also share certain frailties, such as substance abuse. We are not ...

Scientists are deliberately breeding the invasive cane toad in Western Australia's far north as part of a strategy to protect native wildlife. Exposing predators like goannas to small, non-lethal ...

On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, ...