It's more like toad tadpoles – before they become full-fledged hopping-around toads – are eating the even earlier stages of their kin.

Thus, animal conservation and restoration treat ecosystem imbalance and promote biodiversity, which is integral to the ...

University of Arizona 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 ...

As a result, cane toad hatchlings have started to develop at a faster rate than seen in their native populations, effectively minimizing the window where they may be eaten by tadpoles.

A female crested toad can lay up to 15,000 eggs, which hatch into tadpoles within a day. Those that don’t succumb to predation or habitat destruction reach the metamorphosis stage within 18 to ...

Genetically modified, cannibal tadpoles may be the solution to Australia’s nearly century-old invasive cane toad problem. According to researchers, removing a single gene that controls ...

In 2022, the first group of toads were reared from the tadpole stage. That group, for the first time ever, was reintroduced to the wild on June 27.