Animal world
Paradoxical frog species has tadpoles that are larger than adults
Paradox frogs are only about 8cm long, while in the tadpole stage they can be up to 22cm long.
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Archeology
Argentina discovers world's oldest dinosaur tadpole fossil
Based on phylogenetic analysis of modern amphibian larvae, the fossils helped identify Notobatrachus tadpoles as very close to the group that includes all living frogs a…
Animal world
Three-eyed dinosaur shrimp - 'living fossil' is causing a 'fever' in the research world!
Three-eyed dinosaur shrimp, also known as long-tailed tadpole shrimp, this creature has lived on Earth for 300 million years.
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NASA captures strange details of giant 'tadpoles' in Siberia: Scientists immediately warn
Immediately after finding out
Biology
Scientists have just created a creature that can live without breathing
The researchers injected photosynthetic algae into the tadpoles, thereby creating a symbiotic relationship between the amphibians and microorganisms, allowing the amphib…
Animal world
Introduced to Australia, the cane toad evolved to eat its own kind
Exposure to the cane toad's own toxin causes the tadpoles to eat eggs or smaller fellows.
New technology
Design a robot fish to repel invasive fish
Robot fish shaped like sea bass becomes the fear of invasive mosquito fish.
Animal world
Very strange frog species: Just discovered, it's about to become extinct
Strange frogs raise their young with the world's most special leg pouches.
Animal world
Giant tadpoles bigger than soda cans
The American frog frog tadpoles discovered in Arizona have an abnormal size and cannot turn into frogs.
Archeology
Fish lizard discovered 'half a seal and a half tadpole'
The 248 million-year-old fossil of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus reveals features never before seen in fish or lizard (Ichthyosaur).
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Why is cannibalism unacceptable in humans?
Amphibian tadpoles must regularly eat their 'brothers' to increase their ability to thrive. Gulls and pelicans are two of many birds that use their young to feed or prev…
Animal world
Giant frogs have a unique way of building a 'tadpole pool'
Most frogs are small in size but the Goliath frog in Cameroon is larger than the human foot, up to 34cm long and weighs up to 3.3kg.
1001 mystery
Mysterious tadpole rain in Japan
Japanese people, officials and scientists are confused when they hear about the strange torrential rain in Ishikawa's central province.
Oceanography
The 'ghost' fish only lives at a depth of 7.5 km on the seabed, melting when ashore
Three new 'ghost' species are found at 7,500 meters deep in the seabed, in one of the deepest fissures in the Pacific.
Oceanography
Close up of shark eggs: look like tadpoles that have 'peach hearts' like strange eggs
Information about sharks is not always scary, typically strange stories revolving around its eggs.