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

While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese scientists in Argentina found something else instead: ...

Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock finding that could alter our ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million ...

Amphibian fossils, particularly those capturing larval stages, are exceptionally rare due to tadpoles’ soft, delicate bodies, ...

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found.

The amphibian wasn’t just ancient ... degiustoi was big throughout its life, much like the modern American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus). The fossil tadpole also appears to have fed like modern ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...

The fossil is strikingly similar to the tadpoles ... day tadpoles use to sift food particles from water. That means the amphibians’ survival strategy has stayed tried and true for millions ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole, which lived among the Jurassic dinosaurs 160 million years ago.