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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

One night a few years ago, he noticed a group of predaceous diving beetles (family: Dytiscidae) ripping into a tadpole. Both larval and adult diving beetles are known predators of tadpoles, but ...