Perhaps the most surprising revelation of this study is just how big the Jurassic tadpole was. Although it’s not larger than ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers believe that N. degiustoi likely reached its giant size—which rivaled that of most anurans alive during the age of reptiles (251.9–66.0 million years ago)—as a result of having a long ...

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 ...

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

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