Tadpoles don’t cry to get their way. But some of them sure can beg. Each bout of hungry-baby drama among mimic poison frogs (Ranitomeya imitator) occupies both parents for hours. The tadpoles get so ...

TikTok’s latest viral weight-loss trend? The disturbingly named ‘tadpole water’. No, this isn’t frogspawn from your local pond, it’s a drink made by mixing chia seeds into water with a squeeze of ...

New research suggests that routine use of the pesticide malathion -- the most popular insecticide in the United States -- can decimate tadpole populations by altering their food chain. The latest ...

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 ...

1. High-latitude species (and populations within species) are adapted to short and cold summers. They often have high growth and development rates to fully use the short growing season and mature ...

Hundreds of golden frog tadpoles have hatched as part of the Golden Frog Project. The Project aims to serve as Noah's Ark until a solution to control a fungus is found. Hundreds of golden frog ...

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. By Asher Elbein The metamorphosis of a frog from baby to adult is one of nature’s ...

OAKLAND — In a quest to save an endangered California mountain frog from extinction, the Oakland Zoo is seeking to build a tougher tadpole. Zoo staffers, borrowing a strategy that worked with the ...

It's a tadpole-eat-tadpole world out there — and that's exactly what Australian scientists are hoping will control the spread of a giant invasive toad with toxic flesh. The toads are also locked into ...

The latest findings of a University of Pittsburgh-based project to determine the environmental impact of routine pesticide use suggests that malathion—the most popular insecticide in the United States ...