tadpole
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"This detailed work on a bunch of simply glorious fossils nails it that they went straight into a juvenile phase so didn't need to go through the tadpole stage."
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
During these weeks, a frog embryo develops to a young tadpole, a tadpole with two legs, and a young froglet with four legs before reaching the adult stage.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
"This image swirls with light, energy and a feeling of synchronised movement between the lilies and the tadpole tails," said Kathy Moran, Jury Chair and Editor.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023
Pilar slipped out like a tadpole, dark, hairless, and eager for light.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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That's not what we would expect to see in amphibians, whose metamorphosis from tadpoles into adults includes much more dramatic rearranging and development of organs and limbs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
A snapshot of wriggling toad tadpoles has earned Shane Gross the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
At another point, McNeish stopped at a dry depression and poked her yardstick into tangled aquatic plants, finding dead tadpoles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
The research team collected frog eggs from nine populations and allowed them to hatch into tadpoles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
She passes developments that from the air look like petri dishes of tadpoles, each tadpole head a cul-de-sac.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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