ROYAL OAK, Mich. - The Detroit Zoo has produced 40 toadlets through a captive breeding program for Wyoming toads that has involved scientists at zoos and universities around the nation. The endangered species, known as Bufo baxteri, grows to about 2 inches long and weighs less than 30 grams.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An environmental group and a Christian prayer network have joined forces to sue the Bush administration over the fate of an endangered toad -- the same "hapless" amphibian at the center of a legal opinion by U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reintroduce several hundred more Wyoming toad tadpoles in Albany County.