Young frogs and toads, after they first hatch from eggs, are called tadpoles. Over the next two weeks they change dramatically, called metamorphosis. First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ones.

CREEDE, Colo. — The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance (DZCA) and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) have released more than 2,200 boreal toad tadpoles into the wetlands near Creede. In 2021, DZCA and ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has released 450 tadpoles and 193 subadult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the streams of the San Gabriel Mountains in an effort to restore the species ...

The world’s amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may be the canary in the coalmine for the nascent anthropogenic mass extinction ...

Tadpoles have decided not to turn into frogs because of this year's bad weather. The young amphibians usually begin their transition into frogs in the UK during April and May, but they have been seen ...

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...