It has long been known that various amphibians, including frogs and toads, lived during this time, and even much further back ...

The discovery is helping to clear up a long-standing mystery as to when frogs and toads evolved their iconic two-stage life-cycle. "The research demonstrates that a tadpole stage followed by a ...

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 ...

One of the most amazing life cycles in nature can happen in your own back garden or local pond. These are tadpoles. They've hatched from these small jelly covered eggs. They don't look like much ...

The finding sheds new light on early frog evolution, suggesting that even at their earliest evolutionary stages, frogs and toads had a tadpole life stage, according to John Long, a palaeontologist ...