July is a month of early harvest in the garden. Much of the produce; especially the greens, that have been growing through the long days of June can now be gathered. This is also seen with the berries ...

Frogs, like butterflies and salamanders, have what is called a "bi-phasic life cycle." They undergo metamorphosis to grow from their larval stage, as a non-reproductive tadpole that swims underwater, ...

Paleontologists working in Patagonia have unearthed the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole—and it was a whopper, measuring in at more than six inches long, the size of an adult human hand. The specimen, ...

Tadpoles have been wriggling in the world’s ponds for at least 161 million years. A newly detailed fossil finding pushes the record for earliest known tadpoles back an additional 30 million years, ...

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.

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The popularity of the famous French delicacy of cuisses de grenouille, or frogs’ legs, is threatening the existence of certain frog species, a group of more than 500 environmental campaigners has ...