A kiddie pool became an unlikely habitat for dozens of tadpoles in Knoxville in mid-July, after a woman forgot to empty her son’s pool out before going on a trip. This footage captured by Chessney ...

A photograph of a giant, green-and-yellow tadpole longer than a human hand turned up in an X post on Feb. 12, 2025. At the time of this reporting, the post had received more than 296,000 views. At the ...

When 8-year-old Ava Calsbeek spotted some wood frog eggs in a pond near her family’s home in Hanover, she noticed they were black on one side and white on the other. Ava showed her dad, Ryan Calsbeek, ...

When 8-year-old Ava Calsbeek spotted some wood frog eggs in a pond near her family’s home in Hanover, she noticed they were black on one side and white on the other. Ava showed her dad, Ryan Calsbeek, ...

The venue: a remote creek in the San Gabriel Mountains. The attendees: federal ecologists and zoo staffers. The guests of honor: 500 wriggling tadpoles. The cause for celebration: A homecoming for one ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop faster —but end up being smaller — than tadpoles from forests, probably ...

There’s much more to frogs than hopping and ribbiting. Some frogs swallow their tadpoles and later cough tiny, fully formed frogs out of their mouths. Some freeze in the winter, only to come back to ...

Researchers studied the evolution of the body sizes of frogs and their tadpoles. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other as previously thought. If you ...

Poison dart frogs exhibit extraordinary parental devotion, with males guarding eggs and transporting tadpoles to safe bromeliad nurseries. Females then return to feed their young unfertilized eggs, ...

A photograph shared online genuinely shows an exceptionally large tadpole roughly the size of a soda can or human hand. Rating: True (About this rating?) A photograph of a giant, green-and-yellow ...