Flexible electrodes were implanted into tadpole embryos when they were days old - Liu Lab/Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cyborg tadpoles with electrodes grown into their brains ...

Some tadpoles break the rules of biology. Instead of developing lungs as they grow, they lose them entirely and still manage to survive. A recent study from Cornell University found that these ...

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it advantageous—bucking long-standing assumptions about how lost traits can ...

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. The specimen, ...

With 8.2 billion people in the world, cities are constantly expanding, rapidly altering the environment. Animals that undergo complete metamorphosis, such as frogs, may face bigger challenges as they ...