The Tadpole Galaxy lies some 400 million light-years away, and is classed with the morphological type of SB (s)c pec, the last bit, “peculiar,” referring to its obvious signs of interaction.

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.

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The frogs were all adults from the same extinct species, Notobatrachus degiustoi. That led some researchers to speculate that perhaps in those days, frogs didn’t have a tadpole stage yet. Yet in ...

The resulting tadpoles were albino and when the tadpoles metamorphosised, the toads were also pure albino. The experiment was a “terrific success”, Rick says. (l-r) An albino cane toad tadpole ...

The oldest-known tadpole was discovered in Argentina and dates back 161 million years. The unusually large, well-preserved fossil predates the previous record holder by about 20 million years.

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago, among the dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period. The new fossil, found in ...

FILE PHOTO: A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 28, 2024 ...

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 ...