It displays features linked to the filter-feeding way of eating that we see in today’s tadpoles. Both N. degiustoi tadpoles ...

Tadpoles metamorphose three to four months after hatching. Foothill yellow-legged frogs usually reach sexual maturity after one or two years. FEEDING: Tadpoles feed on algae. Adults eat terrestrial ...

Every day, western toad tadpoles swim up from the safer depths of the lake, dodging predators and trying to reach the shallows where they can feed. The tadpoles start becoming toads between 4 and 12 ...

Frog tadpoles have a remarkable ability to regenerate their tissues—a process that requires a lot of energy, fast. In other animals, rapidly growing tissues, such as tumors and embryos, are thought to ...

Great crested newts are nocturnal and are voracious eaters, feeding on worms, slugs, and insects on land, and tadpoles and mollusks in water. They are more terrestrial than most newts, but must ...

FEEDING: Adults forage primarily on ants, beetles, spiders and other invertebrates. Tadpoles filter suspended plant material or feed on bottom detritus. THREATS: Boreal toads are threatened by disease ...