You’re probably familiar with the story of how frogs make more frogs. It goes like this: When a lady frog and a dude frog love each other very much, they play a little game of piggyback that results ...

A consortium of zoos has been working to hatch and release endangered Puerto Rican crested toads, with the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens announcing the recent release of over 24,000 tadpoles.

Wet weather has helped a new population of one of the UK's most ancient creatures to hatch in the south of Scotland. The tadpole shrimp - a relative of one of the oldest known animal species in the ...

Some tadpoles can respond to their environment even before birth, hatching with stronger jaws if they sense prey in the water while still embryos. The Mexican spadefoot toad (Spea multiplicata) is a ...

For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or... The oldest tadpole ever found is 161 million years ...