Both frogs and toads need water to survive.  Both species lay their eggs in water and their eggs hatch into tadpoles.  Tadpoles cannot survive in open air. The differences in frogs and ...

Young frogs and toads, after they first hatch from eggs, are called tadpoles. Over the next two weeks they change dramatically, called metamorphosis. First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ...

Frogs and toads in the U.S. have some of the most eclectic diets imaginable. All adults are carnivorous, whereas tadpoles — the larval aquatic stage of development — are generally herbivorous.

And so, it can be quite easy to tell the difference between tadpoles of salamanders from those of frogs and toads. Life in these pools for all the tadpoles is temporary and they will all mature to ...

Battle to save Colorado high-country toads goes microbial with ground-breaking Purple Rain treatment Vanishing amphibians may get boost from inoculation of 5,600 tadpoles with lab-grown anti ...

Australia's millions of cane toads have started cannibalizing their young to prevent overpopulation—but the species' rapid evolution is fighting back.