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

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 ...

Scientists have found the oldest fossil of a giant tadpole, which moved more than 160 ... scientists found the world’s second-smallest toad. Scientists found the second-smallest vertebrate ...