With scavengers ready to feast on fallen critters, the water can sometimes be a bad place for fossilization. In addition, tadpoles are made mostly of cartilage and soft tissue; they don't form the ...

Eggs lain in water hatch into (usually water-dwelling) larvae known as tadpoles. Tadpoles are legless and typically have a few fish-like features not seen in adult frogs; for example, they have ...

She deposits each tadpole into the water-filled center of its own bromeliad, where the leaves have grown into a rosette, similar to the shape of the top of a pineapple. Every day for nearly two ...

Amphibians lay eggs in water like this frogspawn. The wriggling tadpoles hatch with tails and gills to breathe underwater just like fish. As they grow, they develop legs and lungs and begin to ...

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 ...

Hanging above the water, these red-eyed tree frog tadpoles are easy targets for wasps. However, at just five days old, they ...

The researchers were looking for dinosaurs when the discovery was made by chance Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in the world. According to an ...