At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

Remarkable Discovery of 161-Million-Year-Old Well-Preserved Giant Tadpole Fossil Stuns Scientists Fossils were a common find ...

Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in the world. According to an article ...

Researchers say the fossil shows the evolution of frogs and toads, revealing that tadpoles today are very similar to their ...

When we think of the Jurassic, images of giants come to mind. Giant dinosaurs, giant pterosaurs, giant frogs… If the latter had never occurred to you, might we offer up the oldest known tadpole on ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest giant tadpole fossil, dating back over 160 million years, in Argentina.

Amphibian fossils, particularly those capturing larval stages, are exceptionally rare due to tadpoles’ soft, delicate bodies, ...

A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that different from some modern species ...

The researchers believe that N. degiustoi likely reached its giant size—which rivaled that of most anurans alive during the age of reptiles (251.9–66.0 million years ago)—as a result of having a long ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...

Earth’s frogs and toads belong to a group of tailless amphibians called the anurans. The two-stage life cycle–when the aquatic tadpole changes into an adult form–is one of the main ...