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Fertilized eggs, or frog spawn, can incubate for anywhere between 48 hours and 23 days before hatching, depending on the species, according to the San Diego Zoo. Small, legless, fish-like tadpoles ...
Thousands of species of frogs, salamanders and legless caecilians are at risk of disappearing forever. Facing a unique cocktail of threats, including habitat destruction, disease and climate change, ...
A team of Brazilian biologists have documented legless, subterranean amphibian ... Enter caecilians, wormlike relatives of frogs, toads, and salamanders that live primarily in tropical areas.
The diverse list of 968 new species includes previously unknown dinosaurs and extinct creatures, beetles, moths, sea slugs, geckos, fish, frogs, spiders, plants, fungi, worms and a legless skink.
Tadpoles are legless and typically have a few fish-like features not seen in adult frogs; for example, they have tails, gills for breathing, and an underwater sensory apparatus based on detecting ...
[Related: These legless, egg-laying amphibians secrete ... In a statement sent to PopSci, Kermit the Frog wrote: “When the Smithsonian team approached me asking to name a newly-discovered ...