It has long been known that various amphibians, including frogs and toads, lived during this time, and even much further back ...

This exceptional finding sheds light on a distant aquatic past where giant tadpoles roamed the ponds of the Jurassic, 161 million years ago. Amphibians, and particularly frogs, undergo a unique ...

The discovery is helping to clear up a long-standing mystery as to when frogs and toads evolved their iconic two-stage life-cycle. "The research demonstrates that a tadpole stage followed by a ...

One of the most amazing life cycles in nature can happen in your own back garden or local pond. These are tadpoles. They've hatched from these small jelly covered eggs. They don't look like much ...

Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in the world ... aspects about the evolution of the life cycle of anurans, a group that includes frogs, toads, ...

The finding sheds new light on early frog evolution, suggesting that even at their earliest evolutionary stages, frogs and toads had a tadpole life stage, according to John Long, a palaeontologist ...

The tadpole discovered belongs to the Jurassic species Notobatrachus degiustoi, according to the published research, and provides a greater understanding of the evolution of the life cycle of a frog.