A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. By Asher Elbein The metamorphosis of a frog from baby to adult is one of nature’s ...

Frogs, like butterflies and salamanders, have what is called a "bi-phasic life cycle." They undergo metamorphosis to grow from their larval stage, as a non-reproductive tadpole that swims underwater, ...

While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese scientists in Argentina found something else instead: parts of a tadpole’s skull and backbone, preserved in a slab of sandstone.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has released 450 tadpoles and 193 subadult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the streams of the San Gabriel Mountains in an effort to restore the species ...

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, then front ones.

Due to amphibians' sensitivity to habitat loss, climate change, and pollution, they are dying in large numbers. Since the 1970s, approximately 200 amphibian species have become extinct. According to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A hundred imperiled northern leopard frogs will be hopping back into the wild soon, thanks to a recovery program at the Oregon Zoo. The rapidly growing tadpoles were brought to ...

Tadpoles have decided not to turn into frogs because of this year's bad weather. The young amphibians usually begin their transition into frogs in the UK during April and May, but they have been seen ...

An artist depicts the tadpole and frog individuals of the Notobatrachus degiustoi species. The oldest known tadpole fossil, which belongs to this species, was found in the Patagonia region of ...