tadpole
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During these weeks, a frog embryo develops to a young tadpole, a tadpole with two legs, and a young froglet with four legs before reaching the adult stage.
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024
"This image swirls with light, energy and a feeling of synchronised movement between the lilies and the tadpole tails," said Kathy Moran, Jury Chair and Editor.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024
Finally, other animal species, including other mollusks, the common earthworm and even the tadpole stages of frogs, also possess a typhlosole that has not been thoroughly studied before.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024
Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.
From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023
Pilar slipped out like a tadpole, dark, hairless, and eager for light.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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