If a cat or dog gets too close to a cane toad they can become sick and die in as little as 15 minutes, according to FWC.

Slideshow: The Cane Toad When Australian scientists failed to find a virus to control one of the most insidious invasive species, they decided to build one. Is it worth the risk? All photos by Brendan ...

A cane toad can kill your pet without moving a muscle — all it takes is one lick from a curious cat or dog. Getty Images They don’t need to physically attack — the toxic, milky poison they ...

The invasive toads will be culled across Australia in a week-long Great Cane Toad Bust. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Cane toads are very large frogs, brought to Australia in 1935 to eat beetles ...

Georgia Ward-Fear / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS The researchers ... Then we noticed they would smell the cane toad before eating, and on the last day we noticed that it was mostly the chicken ...

Experts say the invasive cane toad, also known as the Bufo toad, poses a serious risk to pets due to the milky toxin it secretes from glands on its back. The substance can be lethal if ingested.

Rhonda Holland watched in astonishment as a cane toad on her Seminole Heights porch consumed an entire chicken bone in one gulp. “It freaked me out that he ate the whole thing like that ...

The predators get exposed to a small taste of toad and live to regret it. In previous work, Ward-Fear and her colleagues released “teacher toads” — tadpoles, eggs or very young cane toads ...

(WFLA) — A massive cane toad, nearly a foot long ... That’s a big toad. I’ve seen some pictures of pretty large ones that ...

I've seen some pictures of pretty large ones that have ... a biologist at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida with a specialization in Cane Toad research. Sign up for our Newsletters Cane Toads ...