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 ...

Like anurans (frogs and toads) alive today, it had a biphasic life cycle that began with an aquatic larval form – that’s our ...

“These guys are hatchable,” she says. Red-eyed tree frogs, Agalychnis callidryas, lay their eggs on foliage at the edge of ponds; when the tadpoles hatch, they fall into the water ...

After a few weeks, the tadpoles grow little legs ... will be able to lay their own frogspawn and their life cycle will begin again. But frogs aren't the only animals that go through metamorphosis.

LIFE CYCLE: Relict leopard frogs spend their entire lives in close proximity to springs and riparian corridors within the harsh desert environment. Hatchlings and small tadpoles inhabit the shallow ...

The frog spends most of its life in or near clean, fast-running bodies of water, such as waterfalls and streams. It is an aquatic creature; born as a tadpole, it grows to adulthood in the water.

Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in ... the evolution of the life cycle of anurans, a group that includes frogs, toads, and squids,” said ...

A frog pair clasped in the breeding position with the male riding piggyback on the female, called amplexus, moves to a site where eggs are laid. LIFE CYCLE: Tadpoles hatch within two weeks, then take ...