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

A tadpole is potentially a frog, and as it grows it develops from potentiality to actuality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton