SYDNEY -- Toxic, prolific, and much reviled: Invasive cane toads are on the hop from Australia's eastern seaboard, westward through the tropics of the Northern Territory and on toward the Indian Ocean. Researchers now believe the toads will have traversed the entire continent of Australia within the next five years, traveling about 4,000 km -- a remarkable feat for an amphibian originally from South and Central America.
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Captured cane toads. (Photo courtesy of the Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife)
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