BREAKING: A toad halts play on the golf course. ⛳ This year’s British Open golf championship was disrupted twice by some uninvited characters: first, activists protesting fossil fuels; then, one of Britain's rarest amphibians. “The Open,” as the world’s oldest golf tournament is also known, was visited by a rare natterjack toad, a species protected in Europe. Play was stalled until the arrival of a Royal Liverpool Golf Club staffer with a license to handle the tiny creature. U.S. player Brian Harman won the tournament — and a $3 million prize — but the natterjack cameo netted news headlines too, pointing to the plight of imperiled species worldwide. #StopExtinction #ThatsWild Photo of natterjack toad by Frank Vassen/Wikimedia.