Getting the jump on evolution: Cane toads adapt at speed

A new study comparing invasive cane toads in Japan and Australia has found substantial changes in body size and shape have developed much more rapidly than suggested by long-held ideas of the pace of evolution. Researchers measured and weighed wild-caught cane toads (Rhinella marina) on subtropical Ishigaki Island in southern Japan and compared them to toads measured in Australia, Hawai'i and South America. The work appears in Royal Society Open Science.