Researchers have discovered that cane toad tadpoles are cannibalistic and can help stop the spread of their fellow toads.

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 ...

In fact, tadpoles could’ve been around just as long as adult frogs have, thereby closing the book on this amphibian chicken-and-egg debate. This primordial pond-skipper was shockingly similar to ...

While searching for dinosaur fossils in Argentina, paleontologists made an accidental discovery: the oldest tadpole ever ...

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 ...

Hatchlings drop into the water below and develop through a free-swimming tadpole stage ... No other frog is known to lay eggs on inner walls of tree holes in an upside-down posture with ...

It might seem strange to care about a tadpole, but strawberry poison dart frog moms certainly care about theirs. After her eggs hatch, the mother carries up to five tadpoles on her back to ...

The eggs, or frogspawn, can only be placed on a water tile with air above it. The frogspawn will eventually transform into tadpoles, and the tadpoles will become new frogs. Only one more thing you ...

Conservation workers released the tadpoles into the ancient pingo ponds ... frog that we have in Britain," he said. "They lay fewer eggs, so they're much more vulnerable. "A common frog would ...