Basically, this ancient tadpole used a similar mechanism to filter-feed, marking this as an ancient and stable trait in frog ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole, dating back approximately 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic period. Strawberry poison-dart frog transporting the tadpoles.

This discovery is a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of frogs and toads, as it provides the first ...

Paleontologists made the discovery of a juvenile of the ancient frog species ... the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina could change our understanding of amphibian evolution, per a ...

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 ...

Chuliver and her colleagues have now identified the tadpole as belonging to the extinct frog species Notobatrachus degiustoi, deciphered from the hundreds of adult specimens found in the same ...

Some tadpoles have not grown into frogs this year due to the poor weather Tadpoles have decided not to turn into frogs because of this year's bad weather. The young amphibians usually begin their ...

the oldest tadpole ever found. The fossil, unearthed in the La Matilde Formation in Patagonia, may finally settle a debate about frog evolution, the scientists reported Wednesday (Oct. 30 ...