EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The tadpole grows two front legs and its long tail becomes shorter and shorter. The tadpole uses the nutrients stored in its tail as food, so until its tail is completely gone, it doesn’t need anything else to eat! Then just a little stub of its tail is left, and the tadpole is a young frog.

Detailed explanation-2: -That is, frogs have four legs, but tadpoles have only two-the back ones. The front legs of tadpoles develop along with the back ones, but they do so internally, erupting only at the very end of development, just before the tadpole officially becomes a frog and leaves the water.

Detailed explanation-3: -The front legs develop inside the gill pocket of the tadpole’s body. They don’t emerge until he’s almost ready to leave the water because they slow him down even more than the back legs. Once all four of his legs have popped out, the tadpole is called a froglet.

Detailed explanation-4: -First, they grow back legs, then front legs too! Soon after, their body starts to change shape, and they’re able to start eating insects. Next, the tadpoles’ tails shrink away, and skin grows over their gills, as they develop lungs and eardrums!

Detailed explanation-5: -Basic Facts. Frogs have multiple stages in thier life cycle: egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, froglet, frog.