First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ones. Skin grows over the gills they use to breathe underwater. Their tails shrink ...

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 ...

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 ...

In fact, tadpoles could’ve been around just as long as adult frogs have, thereby closing the book on this amphibian ...

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 ...

The Bennetts Stream restoration project began five years ago, as part of a wider biodiversity project focused on improving sites of ecological interest across the irrigation scheme’s 44,000-hectare ...

DESCRIPTION: Boreal toads may reach a length of four inches. They possess warty skin and often have a distinctive light mid-dorsal stripe. Tadpoles are black or dark brown and eggs are black. HABITAT: ...

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 ...