What No Other Frog Does: New Species Bypasses Egg And Gives Birth Directly To Tadpoles
Saturday, January 3, 2015 - 21:20
in Biology & Nature
A new species of frog, Limnonectes larvaepartus, from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, does what no other frog does: It gives birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. A member of the Asian group of fanged frogs, the new species was discovered a few decades ago by Indonesian researcher Djoko Iskandar and was thought to give direct birth to tadpoles, but the frog's mating and an actual birth had never been observed before. read more