The larvae are aquatic and free-swimming—frogs and toads at this stage are called tadpoles. At a certain size, the young develop limbs and lungs. Some also lose their tails. Eventually ...

Animalogic What Happens After You Lose Your Tail? Posted: March 14, 2025 | Last updated: March 14, 2025 Many animals, like lizards and some amphibians, have the ability to drop their tails as a ...

They have big strong tails to help them swim. But you would need to look hard to spot the UK’s largest newt because the great crested newt is also the rarest. Amphibians lay eggs in water like ...

You’re probably familiar with the basic amphibian life plan: start as a wriggly water-breathing tadpole, transform into an ...

Fossil of Apateon pedestris, a 7cm-long larval amphibian. This 300-million-year-old specimen is so well preserved that you can see the entire outline of the body, the shape of the long tail, the ...