Similarly, in infected ponds that ultimately saw no die-off, tadpoles grew significantly faster and developed precociously over the first month of life, so that they were larger in body size as ...

Photographer’s description: “I saw these two hooded mergansers chasing each other in a pond after one had captured a large tadpole. I was able to capture some pictures of the action with my ...

The three-spined stickleback is a small fish found in ponds, lakes, ditches and rivers. It is a carnivore and eats other small animals, including tadpoles and fish. Each year females lay their ...

“These guys are hatchable,” she says. Red-eyed tree frogs, Agalychnis callidryas, lay their eggs on foliage at the edge of ponds; when the tadpoles hatch, they fall into the water ...

Emerging from a partially frozen pond more than 6,000 feet high in the ... brief window of warm weather for females to lay eggs and tadpoles to metamorphose into juveniles, known as froglets.

Each spring, usually during April, my walking takes me on a route where I visit about 10 vernal ponds. Often called "vernal pools," they tend to be small and shallow and show up in spring. "Vernal" ...