A photograph of a giant, green-and-yellow tadpole longer than a human hand turned up in an X post on Feb. 12, 2025. At the time of this reporting, the post had received more than 296,000 views.

While searching for dinosaur fossils in Argentina, paleontologists made an accidental discovery: the oldest tadpole ever ...

Giant dinosaurs, giant pterosaurs, giant frogs… If the latter had never occurred to you, might we offer up the oldest known tadpole on record? And yes, it’s an absolute giant. A fossil tadpole ...

They undergo metamorphosis to grow from their larval stage, as a non-reproductive tadpole that swims underwater, to their adult stage, as a frog that can jump on land. This drastic transformation ...

Paleontologists working in Patagonia have unearthed the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole—and it was a whopper, measuring in at more than six inches long, the size of an adult human hand.

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.

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. By Asher Elbein The metamorphosis of a frog from baby to adult is one of nature ...