“After many days of digging, one team member found a stone with a particular imprint on it, and it was a fossil tadpole!” Photographs and interpretative drawing of specimen MPM-PV 2354 ...

Tadpoles are born with oversized heads and long tails. Soon the tails vanish, swapped out for tiny legs and a more frog-like shape. This incredible anatomical rejiggering is easy to take for granted.

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 ...

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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

An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science, dating back 161 million years, with an anatomy that is strikingly similar to some of today’s species.

Paleontologists working in Patagonia have unearthed the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole—and it was a whopper, measuring in at more than six inches long, the size of an adult human hand.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago. The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ancient record ...

Found in a rock in Argentina, the six-inch-long tadpole sheds light on the history of frog metamorphosis Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent An artist depicts the tadpole and frog individuals of ...

Tadpoles have been wriggling in the world’s ponds for at least 161 million years. A newly detailed fossil finding pushes the record for earliest known tadpoles back an additional 30 million ...

Tadpole Studio is a small, multidisciplinary design studio based in Honolulu and Bangkok. Founded by husband-and-wife architects Bundit Kanisthakhon and Janice Li, the firm prides itself on using ...