This cycle begins when the animals hatch from eggs into fishlike tadpoles with long tail fins. Tadpoles eat pond vegetation, ...

its larvae find a bullfrog tadpole and burrow their way through its skin, forming cysts around the frog’s developing limbs. With legs added, subtracted, or compromised, the ungainly victim is ...

The tadpole gut contains small sand grains together with decaying organic matter, which acts as a nutrient source. The Indian Dancing frogs typically wave their legs as a territorial and sexual ...

ALL accounts of the metamorphosis of the common frog leave it to be tacitly inferred that when the front legs make their way through the operculum branchial respiration ceases, and that ...

They can have four legs or no legs at all ... Back legs grow first, then front legs. No need for their tadpole tails now. They soon drop off. Now tiny frogs hop away from the pond.