First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ones. Skin grows over the gills they use to breathe underwater. Their tails shrink ...

While searching for dinosaur fossils in Argentina, paleontologists accidentally discovered the fossil of a giant ancient ...

A snapshot of wriggling toad tadpoles has earned Shane Gross the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Beneath a floating canopy of lily pads in Cedar Lake, Canada, a swarm of western toad ...

Scientists have discovered how to identify frogs from their tadpoles in a step towards saving amphibians from extinction. Conservation efforts to protect the breeding grounds of endangered frogs ...

To the editor: We would like to draw the attention of your readers to two recent articles that we believe will be important for the detection of parasite infections, particularly in the field ...

Young frogs and toads, after they first hatch from eggs, are called tadpoles. Over the next two weeks they change dramatically, called metamorphosis. First, tadpoles grow back legs ...

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Tadpoles aren’t very picky either, and will eat algae, dead scorpions, and even dead tadpoles—that is, if they aren’t eaten first by invasive species that prey on Puerto Rican crested toad ...

Tadpoles are to frogs as oranges are to apples. "They are so very different," University of Cincinnati Professor Daniel Buchholz said. In his biology lab, he and his students are studying the ...

Can we find out how long it takes for tadpoles to turn into frogs? Molly: Ok, you watch that pond and I’ll watch this one. Narrator: How often you observe depends on what you’re testing ...

Great crested newts are nocturnal and are voracious eaters, feeding on worms, slugs, and insects on land, and tadpoles and mollusks in water. They are more terrestrial than most newts, but must ...