Tadpoles are cannibalistic. Talk about sibling rivalry! As the world’s fastest land mammal, cheetahs are often considered to be the perfect predator. But they certainly aren’t born ready for ...

The tadpole's size also paints a picture of the kinds of habitat that frogs evolved in more than 160 million years ago – lots ...

But did this remarkable life cycle already exist in their early days? Frog fossils are rare, and even rarer are those of tadpoles, those young amphibians vulnerable to predators and unstable aquatic ...

“They also don’t eat the eggs of native frogs much at all and have almost no poison until they metamorphose (turn into baby toads) when they become so toxic predators that eat them die.” This means if ...

"The high availability of food resources, the absence of predators, and the absence of competitors such as fish or other anuran species were key factors for the tadpoles to grow giant," Chuliver ...