California high school sports fans have spoken, choosing the Coalinga Horned Toads as the best mascot in the state. Coalinga (population 17,465) won the contest with 72,114 votes, while Hollister ...

The National Park Service has a few simple requests for its guests who want to enjoy the outdoors: Pick up your trash, be mindful of your campfires, and please don’t lick the Sonoran Desert toads. The ...

The winners and highest vote-getters will make up the field for our NCAA Tournament-style March Mascot Madness bracket in 2025. The Coalinga Horned Toads (California) are the defending national ...

A toad that has not been seen in Yosemite National Park in 11 years was reintroduced to the park this week by San Francisco Zoo officials. Zoo officials said in a Facebook post that 118 Yosemite toads ...

More than 100 toads flew over California last week on their way to a new home: a remote meadow in Yosemite National Park where the amphibians previously thrived but had not been seen in over a decade.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two types of yellow-legged frogs, and a kind of toad found in Yosemite National Park, won extra protection Thursday when federal authorities declared nearly 3,000 square miles in ...