When people or animals are thrust into threatening situations such as combat or attack by a predator, stress hormones are released to help prepare the organism to defend itself or to rapidly escape ...

Tadpoles grow pumped-up tails when stressed out by the threat of predators nearby, a new study finds. These beefed-up tails help the tadpoles escape predators such as dragonfly larvae, according to ...

Scientists have made a surprising finding after studying how tadpoles re-grow their tails which could have big implications for research into human healing and regeneration. Scientists at The ...

Tadpoles can regenerate their tails thanks to a technique that alters the electrical properties of their cells, a new study shows. The build-up of electrical charge at the site of amputation helps ...

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’s ...

The world’s amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may be the canary in the coalmine for the nascent anthropogenic mass extinction ...

July is a month of early harvest in the garden. Much of the produce; especially the greens, that have been growing through the long days of June can now be gathered. This is also seen with the berries ...

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)-- A University of Colorado-Boulder student's effort to save native Boreal toads seems to be working! Tim Korpita and wildlife officers returned to Chaffee County this week ...

Who needs eggs? Scientists have discovered an unusual frog species that gives birth to live tadpoles. These Froggies Went A Courtin' And Gave Birth To Live Tadpoles When Jim McGuire and some ...

Wiring replacement organs into the body may be as easy as discharging a biological battery, new experiments with tadpoles suggest. Scientists cut the eye from one tadpole’s head and transplanted it to ...

Tadpoles grow pumped-up tails when stressed out by the threat of predators nearby, a new study finds. These beefed-up tails help the tadpoles escape predators such as dragonfly larvae, according to ...