Tadpoles will usually stick together in large schools for social interactions and safety. Now we get to perhaps one of the ...

The discovery is helping to clear up a long-standing mystery as to when frogs and toads evolved their iconic two-stage life-cycle. "The research demonstrates that a tadpole stage followed by a ...

Uniquely among amphibians, male Darwin’s frogs carry their tiny tadpoles inside their vocal sacs to protect them until they metamorphose into froglets. The dad then spits out a succession of between ...

ALL accounts of the metamorphosis of the common frog leave it to be tacitly inferred that when the front legs make their way through the operculum branchial respiration ceases, and that ...

Some amphibians breathe through their skin! Metamorphosis – The changes that some animals go through as they grow. The change from a tadpole to frog is an example of a metamorphosis. Omnivores ...

To investigate how this hormone might prepare juvenile amphibians for metamorphosis, the team analyzed levels of mRNA transcripts for leptin receptor proteins and for the hormone itself in tadpoles of ...

Students should have access to tactile models and overlays of the different stages in the life cycle of frogs, dragonflies and butterflies before viewing the Metamorphosis: Change of Plans video. The ...

Another special feature of most amphibians is their egg-larva-adult life cycle. The larvae are aquatic and free-swimming—frogs and toads at this stage are called tadpoles. At a certain size ...