But for N. degiustoi, the ponds of the Jurassic had ample resources, and the tadpoles could afford a longer development time, she suggested. tadpoles swim in a Jurassic pond, with frogs sitting on ...

Millions of years ago, a 16-centimetre tadpole met an untimely end, sinking to the bottom of a pond where it would stay for millennia. Research on the Jurassic amphibian, which has today been ...

Scientists have found a fossil of the earliest-known tadpole, which lived around 161 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. The large Argentinian fossil suggests that many features of ...

She said the animals decided early in the year whether they would stay as tadpoles or "metamorphosise into tiny baby frogs", depending on whether conditions were right. "If a pond is really ...

“The habitat in which this species lived was probably a shallow pond, which dried out periodically ... This suggests that the tadpole was in its late stage of metamorphosis.

But for N. degiustoi, the ponds of the Jurassic had ample resources, and the tadpoles could afford a longer development time, she suggested. However, other than its size, the body of the N.

The tadpoles are unusual ... Killer frog disease wipes out 90 species How frogs could vanish from ponds World's 'loneliest' frog gets a date One disease alone, a type of fungus, has pushed ...

Lamoureux and Madison (1999) tracked 23 green frogs and found that they made extensive movements in late fall away from summer breeding ponds to areas of flowing water in streams and seeps. They ...

Juan Jesús Gonzalez Ahumada (Spain) watches as toad tadpoles feast on a dead fledgling sparrow. Drama unfolded near Juan’s home when a newly fledged sparrow launched itself from a nest on his ...

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.