The transition from tadpole to juvenile frog is never easy — legs sprout, tails shrink and lungs develop for a life on land, ...

But in the Aquarium of the Pacific's frog nursery, hundreds of critically endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs and ...

Do big frogs grow from big tadpoles? There is a correlation in size, research finds. The new study finds that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other, as previously ...

A group of researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and Stanford University were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Amphibian species of this region use ...

If you have any children in your life, imagine for a moment that they don't look anything like their parents, they don't eat anything humans normally eat, and they're active only while adults sleep.

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology. Eiffinger’s tree ...

The discovery in Patagonia shows that frogs have had a tadpole stage for at least 160 million years. Here’s how the ancient frogs compare to those of today. Tadpoles and adults of the extinct frog ...

Efforts to revive the Chiricahua leopard frog habitat in Southeastern Arizona encountered severe obstacles. The introduction of invasive American bullfrogs disrupted local frog populations ...

The African clawed frog, a species native to southern Africa, is one of the most successful invaders in the world. Part of the reason is that it has been of particular interest to scientists for a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The word larvae may make you think of ...

Researchers studied the evolution of the body sizes of frogs and their tadpoles. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other as previously thought. If you ...

A group of researchers were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Various amphibian species of this region use ephemeral pools of water as their nurseries, and ...