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.
The tadpole was about 6 inches (16 centimeters) long — like a baseball with a 3-inch-long (7.6 cm) tail. The adult frog is just as big, which surprised the researchers. "Both [juvenile and adult ...
The Notobatrachus tadpole, however, was the same length as one of the adult frogs. “That feature is really, really hard to find in nature today,” Dr. Chuliver said. “Such a big size was ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ... Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million ...
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.
A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...