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

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

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 ...

Researchers know frogs were hopping around as far back as 217 million years ago. But exactly how and when they evolved to ...

Subscribe for FREE Researchers have successfully optimized AAVs for amphibians, allowing detailed tracking of neural development during the metamorphic transition from tadpole to adult frog. This ...

Though purple frog tadpoles were described as far back as 1917, it was as late as 2003 when an adult was finally described. However, it had already been known to local communities who had ...

The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...