Tadpoles have gills to breathe underwater and ... As temperatures fluctuate in the spring, the chorus frog can survive the freezing of its body fluids down to 17 deg. F. They eat ants, beetles ...

Nanaimo photographer Shane Gross explains how he captured the image that earned him the grand prize as 2024 Wildlife ...

Spring is filled with so many cool and interesting natural things. The earth is awaking after a long and frozen sleep. Each year I am surprised when I hear my first frogs calling. It always seems ...

Though egg laying takes place in spring, frog pairs in mountain ponds ... be 30 percent larger than those of lowland females, giving tadpoles a head start. Eggs and tadpoles of mountain frogs ...

Its other common name derives from the dramatic, jagged crest that males develop along their backs during the spring breeding ... and insects on land, and tadpoles and mollusks in water.

Frog tadpoles have a remarkable ability to regenerate their tissues—a process that requires a lot of energy, fast. In other animals, rapidly growing tissues, such as tumors and embryos, are thought to ...