These are frog eggs. This is how we're used to frogs having babies. They lay eggs, those eggs hatch into tadpoles ... and you learned the rest in science class. However, a newly discovered species of ...

"It was very reminiscent of the scene in 'Alien' where the little monster explodes out of the stomach of the poor human who has been impregnated with that larval alien." Jim McGuire, herpetologist, ...

When 8-year-old Ava Calsbeek spotted some wood frog eggs in a pond near her family’s home in Hanover, she noticed they were black on one side and white on the other. Ava showed her dad, Ryan Calsbeek, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

You’re probably familiar with the story of how frogs make more frogs. It goes like this: When a lady frog and a dude frog love each other very much, they play a little game of piggyback that results ...

Tadpoles don’t cry to get their way. But some of them sure can beg. Each bout of hungry-baby drama among mimic poison frogs (Ranitomeya imitator) occupies both parents for hours. The tadpoles get so ...

L. larvaepartus (male, left, and female) from Indonesia is the only frog ever discovered to birth live tadpoles. Photo: Jim McGuire Here's how frogs usually grow: Gooey clutches of frog eggs (a ...

In northeastern Bangladesh, the red narrow-mouthed frog (Microhyla rubra) is defying the monsoon, breeding in winter streams. It is a surprising twist that challenges assumptions about amphibian life ...

Scientists have never seen anything quite like this before. It’s a newly discovered species of fanged frog that gives direct birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. It isn’t that rare for ...

It's a tadpole-eat-tadpole world out there — and that's exactly what Australian scientists are hoping will control the spread of a giant invasive toad with toxic flesh. The toads are also locked into ...

The creation of new life is a miracle, but ugh, it sure can take forever. Thanks to the wonders of time lapse photography, however, one YouTuber was able to cut the entire development cycle of a ...