Learn about the successful rescue and reintroduction efforts of the California red-legged frog in Santa Monica Mountains.

Researchers studied the evolution of the body sizes of frogs and their tadpoles. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other as previously thought.

Except for 38 frogs that were rescued in 2024, all of the other southern mountain yellow-legged tadpoles and frogs were bred at the zoo.

When most people think of the Jurassic period of the Earth, they picture massive dinosaurs. What they don’t often think about is frogs, but perhaps they should. It has long been known that various ...

Frogs and toads in the U.S. have some of the most eclectic diets imaginable. All adults are carnivorous, whereas tadpoles — the larval aquatic stage of development — are generally herbivorous.

More than 600 rare tadpoles and frogs have been released into the mountains north of Los Angeles. The L.A. Zoo bred and raised the southern mountain yellow-legged frog species, nurturing them until ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop faster—but end up being smaller—than tadpoles from forests ...

Frogs can be found in the fossil record as early as the Late Triassic (around 217–213 million years ago)—but tadpoles had previously only been known to go back to the Cretaceous Period ...

Neotropical frogs are special because, unlike species in temperate regions, many tropical frogs lay their eggs on the ground. This becomes an issue once tadpoles (who breathe using gills, like ...

Eiffinger's tree frogs lay eggs in an isolated water bodies such as a gap between plant stems. Their tadpoles hold onto their poop for months to reduce risk of contaminating their small spawning ...

image: An adult female reed frog from Cameroon. In this African family, adult and tadpole body sizes are closely related among species, so that species with larger adults have larger tadpoles and ...