Researchers have identified a new species of poison-dart frog, Ranitomeya hwata, in the remote bamboo-forest of Alto Purus ...

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it ...

Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad by author-illustrator Brandon Reese was first published as a comic on Webtoon last year and is now coming to print for 2025. Brandon Reese is best known for ...

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 ...

Some tadpoles break the rules of biology. Instead of developing lungs as they grow, they lose them entirely and still manage to survive.

Skipping most of the tadpole business, a coqui frog hops out of the egg as a miniature adult, smaller than a pea. Even so, it doesn’t escape the king of tadpole chemistry, thyroid hormone, say ...

"It was very reminiscent of the scene in 'Alien' where the little monster explodes out of the stomach of the poor human who has been impregnated with that larval alien." Jim McGuire, herpetologist, ...

Call it a grand-phibian. Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock finding that could alter our understanding of amphibian evolution, experts say.

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 ...

Witness nature’s magic as the goliath bullfrog undergoes a stunning transformation. From wiggling tadpole to colossal frog, ...