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 ...

Eggs are deposited in long, double-layer jelly strings with one to three rows of eggs. LIFE CYCLE: Eggs hatch one to two weeks after being laid. Tadpoles typically metamorphose by late July to late ...

A life cycle is the journey of a living thing from ... The frogspawn hatches into these little creatures called tadpoles which live in the pond. After a few weeks, the tadpoles grow little legs ...

Frog tadpoles have a remarkable ability to regenerate their tissues—a process that requires a lot of energy, fast. In other animals, rapidly growing tissues, such as tumors and embryos, are thought to ...

Another special feature of most amphibians is their egg-larva-adult life cycle. The larvae are aquatic and free-swimming—frogs and toads at this stage are called tadpoles. At a certain size ...