"Thus, the timing and evolutionary transformations involved in the origins of the tadpole body plan remain enigmatic and a matter of debate." A 3D reconstruction of N. degiustoi. The discovery of ...

Before this discovery, the oldest tadpoles on record were from around 145 million years ago, so this new find pushes rock-hard evidence of this extreme type of ... out its body in incredible ...

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.

The results, from brainless embryos and tadpoles, broaden scientists’ understanding of the types of signals involved ... brain to the far reaches of the body, they are “the first example ...

A major advantage of tadpole recumbent trikes is that they are designed to be comfortable for all body types, and especially for those riders that don’t enjoy the prospect of sitting on a small ...

An international team of researchers compared the reproductive traits of African toads with the types of habitat ... where they hatch into tadpoles before developing into adult toads. These amphibians ...

imitator), a type of poisonous and brightly colored ... the researchers first created a small robot that can emulate the wiggly body movements of tadpoles. They then introduced this robot inside ...

These cells eventually mature into neurons, the cell type in the ... that when the tadpoles were deprived of food, their neural progenitor cells stopped dividing and their body growth decreased ...

Every cell in a living body contains a tiny electric ... There are two types of immune systems present in all vertebrates, from tadpoles to humans. There’s the adaptive immune system, which ...

This suggests that cells from anywhere in the body can be driven to form an eye." To do this, they changed the voltage gradient of cells in the tadpoles' back and tail to match that of normal eye ...