The type is based on the biome the tadpole grew up in, and the main difference between them is their colour. Here’s an overview: If you're looking for a specific biome type to breed frogs ...

Fossils of the ancient frog Notobatrachus degiustoi push the known tadpole timeline back more than 30 million years.

Researchers know frogs were hopping around as far back as 217 million years ago. But exactly how and when they evolved to begin as tadpoles remains unclear. The oldest-known tadpole fossil found ...

“It's not only the oldest tadpole known, but also the most exquisitely preserved,” said study author Mariana Chuliver, a biologist at Buenos Aires’ Maimonides University. Researchers know frogs were ...

A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...

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 ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in the world ... is said to shed light on the evolution of frogs and toads. It was found in January 2020 ...

The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to around 217 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, but the oldest preserved tadpoles had been from roughly 140 million years ago ...

Researchers have discovered that cane toad tadpoles are cannibalistic and can help stop the spread of their fellow toads.