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

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 ...

If frogs' good looks are not enough for you to care about their welfare, perhaps learning how they contribute to the ...

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

Every year, cane toads continue their destructive march across the country, disrupting ecosystems and killing native animals ...

A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a “living fossil” is now losing ground in its native ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers developed a new method that uses adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to track a frog’s nervous system throughout its metamorphosis—a developmental transition from the early tadpole stages ...

Latin America is a land of jaw-dropping biodiversity. Stretching from Mexico down to the southern tip of South America, this ...