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

But the newly found tadpole is even bigger. The specimen measures 16cm from tip to tail, and the team suggest ... excavating in a quarry looking for small dinosaurs," Dr Chuliver Pereyra said.

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.

Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil ... a series of small articulated vertebrae and a black outline forming a kind of tail. I showed it to my ...

Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock ... measuring around 6 inches long with a 3-inch-long tail. “Both [juvenile and adult] stages being ...

as well as a forelimb and part of its tail. The team estimates it would have been around 16 centimetres long, comparable to the biggest tadpoles that exist today. The part of the skeleton that ...

Most of the body and part of the tail are visible in the fossil, in addition to the eyes, nerves, and a forelimb. This suggests that the tadpole was in its late stage of metamorphosis.