If someone shouts “look behind you,” tadpoles in Michael Levin’s laboratory may be ready. The tadpoles can see out of eyes growing from their tails, even though the organs aren’t directly wired to the ...

Though seemingly docile creatures, tadpoles can get snippy when hungry, and sometimes end up eating each other when the stakes are high. Now, new research suggests that the tiny creatures are not ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Transplanting a whole eyeball is tough. So tough, in fact, that it ...

Despite an abundance of tadpoles following the summer breeding season, they're not as easy to find as you might think. Most tadpoles hide from predators in the mud at the bottom of a pond or creek, ...

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology. Eiffinger’s tree ...

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 ...

Newborn poison frogs of Peru have quite an appetite. If left home alone in their hatching pool, the ravenous tadpoles will eat each other. To keep the tadpoles from gorging on their siblings, their ...

When the serpent tempted Eve to eat the forbidden apple in the Bible, God cursed the animal: "Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life." And while snakes don't ...

New research sheds light on a phenomenon called neuroplasticity. You could say Hollis Cline's lab at The Scripps Research Institute is building better tadpoles. To better understand how humans learn, ...