The science and technology publication American Scientist wrote about the "record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a ...

Eggs lain in water hatch into (usually water-dwelling) larvae known as tadpoles. Tadpoles are legless and typically have a few fish-like features not seen in adult frogs; for example, they have ...

leaving only a brief window of warm weather for females to lay eggs and tadpoles to metamorphose into juveniles, known as froglets. Cold-climate frogs grow more slowly than their relatives in ...

After the team snipped the tails off tadpoles of the western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis), they observed increased glucose levels in the regenerating cells. “But then we ran into a problem,” says ...

Michigan is home to ten different species of salamander and the variety within those ten species is quite fascinating. Salamanders are a type of amphibian, along with frogs and toads. The word ...

Both toads and frogs lay eggs protected by jelly which is called 'spawn'. Tadpoles hatch from the spawn before turning into adult amphibians.. Caecilians are limbless amphibians, which means they ...

The American Museum of Natural History writes that American bullfrog tadpoles, scientific name Rana catesbeiana, more typically reach 4 to 6 inches in length and can take up to two years to ...