The gene-edited tadpoles ate three times as many toad eggs as regular tadpoles. Scientists create gene-edited 'Peter Pan' ...

Professor Shine said they were looking at whether or not the gene-edited toad tadpoles would have any impact on birds, fish ...

Cane toad tadpoles have ravenous appetites already ... Australia introduced tropical cane toads (Rhinella marina) onto Queensland farms. Around 2,400 toads were released into the wild in 1935 ...

Cane toad tadpoles already have an appetite for ... Cane toads were purposely introduced to Queensland in 1935 to control cane beetles that were damaging cane crops. But that plan backfired ...

Toad-culling. Toad-busting. Australians have been trying to quell the plague since the Hawaiian solution arrived in 1935 to eat the Queensland cane grub. With little success. Numbers are dizzying ...

However, in Queensland there are two methods recommended by the RSPCA. The first option is HopStop — a product that you spray directly onto the cane toad and it quickly kills it. The second is ...