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

In Ecuador and elsewhere in the region, copper- and gold-mining operations are deforesting habitats and polluting streams that the glass frog tadpoles need with sediment and toxins such as mercury ...

The Glass Frog (Centrolenella colymbiphyllum ... 4 ) When Darwin’s frog tadpoles hatch, a male frog swallows the tadpoles. He keeps the tiny amphibians in his vocal sac for about 60 days ...

Even the tadpoles of Cuban tree frogs compete with the tadpoles ... It then munches on insects and insect larvae, absorbing some much-needed moisture through its porous skin. Glass frogs are a family ...

It may settle a debate about when the tadpole stage of frog development evolved. "There are some researchers that state that probably the most [ancient] frogs didn't have a tadpole stage," said ...