At about a half foot (16 centimeters) long, the tadpole is a younger version of an extinct giant frog. “It's starting to help narrow the timeframe in which a frog becomes a frog,” said Ben ...

She is worried that they could soon be overrun by fast-breeding carnivorous frogs. The Straight reported ... A female can lay floating mats of up to 25,000 eggs that hatch in three to five days.