Tadpoles see well underwater, but what happens when they become frogs and live primarily on land? Researchers, curious about the answer, found the eyes of tadpoles undergo a surprising number of ...

Sunburn is a serious problem in the Southern Hemisphere, where depleted ozone provides less protection from UVB. Tadpoles are at particular risk because they are growing rapidly, making them ...

Amphibians have developed a host of amazing adaptive strategies. A new study has found yet another amazing way these creatures navigate the world around them, even from their earliest stages. Favorite ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a specialised population of skin cells that coordinate tail regeneration in frogs. These 'Regeneration-Organizing Cells' help to explain one ...

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it advantageous—bucking long-standing assumptions about how lost traits can ...

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Do big frogs grow from big tadpoles? There is a correlation in size, research finds. The new study finds that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other, as previously ...

Scientists have long believed that the severity of UVB-induced damage depends mainly on the total amount of radiation received. Under that assumption, a brief period of intense UVB exposure would ...

Research by UConn's Tracy Rittenhouse offers lessons on how environmental factors affect the spread of infectious disease. UConn MS student Nicole Dahrouge, who maintained wood frog tadpoles under ...

A group of researchers were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Various amphibian species of this region use ephemeral pools of water as their nurseries, and ...

TORONTO, June 28, 2022 – Tadpoles see well underwater, but what happens when they become frogs and live primarily on land? Researchers at York University and several other institutions, curious about ...