Why are toads puffing up and spontaneously exploding in northern Europe? It began in a posh German neighborhood and has spread across the border into Denmark. It's left onlookers baffled, but one ...

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 ...

In an effort to manage their constantly expanding population in the area, an environmental organisation called Watergum ...

Thousands of toads are mysteriously exploding in Hamburg, where visitors to parks have been warned to watch out for this odd occurrence. Eyewitnesses say the toads swell up to three and a half times ...

A mystery of exploding toads has turned many people into armchair zoologists this week. Amphibians in a previously obscure German pond have reportedly been blowing up in their thousands, leaving a ...

Bombardier beetles are the chemical weapons experts of the insect world. When under threat, the beetles, which include 649 different species, create a cocktail of chemicals from glands in their ...

BERLIN — More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what’s causing the combustion, an official said yesterday.

Japanese researchers Shinji Sugiura and Takuya Sato released footage Feb. 7 of a bombardier beetle escaping from toad’s stomach by releasing a cloud of toxic gas that forced the toad to vomit it up.

BERLIN, April 28 -- More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and German scientists have no explanation for it. The pond water has been tested, but its ...