DESCRIPTION: Boreal toads may reach a length of four inches. They possess warty skin and often have a distinctive light mid-dorsal stripe. Tadpoles are black or dark brown and eggs are black. HABITAT: ...

This year, he found something special in the flooded grasses at the translocation site: hundreds of wild tadpoles. He’s ...

First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ones. Skin grows over the gills they use to breathe underwater. Their tails shrink and eventually disappear.

Once considered a common western garden amphibian, the large, warty boreal toad has recently experienced dramatic population declines, suffering across its U.S. range from threats like habitat ...

A carnivorous amphibian, the Puerto Rican crested toad feeds on a variety of arachnids and insects, including ants, beetles, crickets, and spiders. Tadpoles aren’t very picky either, and will ...

Other genetic solutions are in development. Tadpole cannibalism has inspired a team at Macquarie University to engineer “Peter Pan” tadpoles, so called because the genes which allow them to grow up ...