Boffins in Australia engineered cane toad tadpoles to stay juvenile and eat toad eggs, using their natural cannibalism to ...

By removing a gene to stunt cane toads at their tadpole stage, scientists hope they may have found a way to make the invader ...

Researchers from the US studied the plasticity in growth and development of wood frog larvae in response to the emerging disease ranavirus, which can kill off the entire population of ponds. They ...

Wood frog tadpoles in infected ponds show faster growth and development, possibly to survive ranavirus or escape before dying ...

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"Here we show that in response to ranavirus, wood frog tadpoles change their growth, development, and resource allocation. This may help tadpoles tolerate the energetic demands of infection or ...

Small ponds will soon become the home for hundreds of newly hatched wood frog tadpoles. They may share this pond with a myriad of aquatic invertebrates. Many of those invertebrates will chow down on ...

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RSPCA experts have appealed to children, parents and teachers to resist the temptation to take frog and toad spawn home to ...

The RSPCA advises children, parents, and teachers to observe frogspawn and tadpole development in natural ponds rather than taking them home, highlighting the environmental impact and benefits of ...

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 ...