tadpole
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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
The stability in personality traits is especially interesting in amphibians, as they undergo major morphological and ecological changes during metamorphosis from tadpole to frog.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
Under the right conditions, the spadefoot tadpole will transform into a voracious predator of its own species.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2023
Then the black notebook came out of his desk, and he showed me three separate sketches of a kind of frog—except with a long tail as though a part of it had stayed a tadpole.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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