Call it a grand-phibian. Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock finding that could alter our understanding of amphibian evolution, experts say.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has released 450 tadpoles and 193 subadult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the streams of the San Gabriel Mountains in an effort to restore the species ...

Researchers have identified a new species of poison-dart frog, Ranitomeya hwata, in the remote bamboo-forest of Alto Purus National Park located in eastern Peru. This newly discovered amphibian is the ...

In a recent study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, researchers discussed the infection of common frog Rana temporaria tadpoles with Ranid Herpesvirus 3. As a result of infectious ...

July is a month of early harvest in the garden. Much of the produce; especially the greens, that have been growing through the long days of June can now be gathered. This is also seen with the berries ...

For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or... The oldest tadpole ever found is 161 million years ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - No ordinary pond-hopper, the vampire flying frog has wowed herpetologists with its webbed feet, gliding ability and habit of laying eggs in tree holes 30 feet high. But one thing sets ...

Eiffinger's tree frogs lay eggs in an isolated water bodies such as a gap between plant stems. Their tadpoles hold onto their poop for months to reduce risk of contaminating their small spawning areas ...

Researchers studied the evolution of the body sizes of frogs and their tadpoles. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other as previously thought. If you ...

It was happy hour at the “Frog Shack,” a tiny building at the Los Angeles Zoo offering all the amenities that Southern California’s rarest — and perhaps fussiest — amphibians might need to survive.