The science and technology publication American Scientist wrote about the "record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a ...

More surprisingly, the amphibian fossil turned out to be 161 million years old, breaking the record for the oldest known tadpole by about 20 million years. The oldest recorded fossils of adult ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known tadpole. And it's a doozy, stretching almost 16 centimeters (or 6 inches ...

Unlike most salamanders, they do not undergo metamorphosis, the transformation from tadpole to adult, which is why they retain their juvenile features ...

Thousands of years of watching birds navigate the rain forest and avoid predators by taking to the sky appears to have convinced this unique amphibian that air travel is the way to go. Also known ...

Axolotls are a species of amphibian native to Mexico but are now rare in the wild. They do not go through metamorphosis like other amphibians, and remain in their larval tadpole state as an adult.

ripping into a tadpole. Both larval and adult diving beetles are known predators of tadpoles, but witnessing the act himself, Valdez began to wonder about the influence of these invertebrates on ...

which described the amphibian as being: … larger in circumference than a can of soda. Its head is around the size of a big adult bullfrog, but is round and blunt-faced like a tadpole, with fishy ...