Juan Jesús Gonzalez Ahumada (Spain) watches as toad tadpoles feast on a dead fledgling sparrow. Drama unfolded near Juan’s home when a newly fledged sparrow launched itself from a nest on his ...

The very common American toad is easily recognized by the warts all over its back and sides and by a ... Toads use all sorts of water bodies to deposit their long strings of eggs. Since hatching and ...

Common toads and natterjack toads live in Britain ... and remain in their larval tadpole state as an adult. This means that axolotls retain their gills and can spend much more time in the water ...

A carnivorous amphibian, the Puerto Rican crested toad feeds on a variety of arachnids and insects, including ants, beetles, crickets, and spiders. Tadpoles aren’t very picky either, and will ...

A snapshot of wriggling toad tadpoles has earned Shane Gross the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Beneath a floating canopy of lily pads in Cedar Lake, Canada, a swarm of western toad ...

Young frogs and toads, after they first hatch from eggs, are called tadpoles. Over the next two weeks they change dramatically, called metamorphosis. First, tadpoles grow back legs ...

If frogs and toads lived, it stands to reason that so did tadpoles, but up until recently, no fossils of them had been found. This is likely due to the fact that they were relatively soft-bodied ...

Scientists have found the oldest fossil of a giant tadpole, which moved more than 160 ... scientists found the world’s second-smallest toad. Scientists found the second-smallest vertebrate ...