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A tadpole person [1] [2] [3] or headfooter [4] [5] is a simplistic representation of a human being as a figure without a torso, with arms and legs attached to the head. Tadpole people appear in young children's drawings before they learn to draw torsos and move on to more realistic depictions such as stick figures. Preschoolers who draw tadpole ...
These early "stem-tetrapods" included animals such as Ichthyostega, [2] with legs and lungs as well as gills, but still primarily aquatic and poorly adapted for life on land. The Devonian stem-tetrapods went through two major population bottlenecks during the Late Devonian extinctions , also known as the end-Frasnian and end-Fammenian extinctions.
[2] [8] As medical journals across the United States and around the world turned renewed attention to a now mature Corbin, details about her personality revealed a sense of the woman: One article noted that "The lady, Mrs. B.... the Myrtle Corbin of days gone by, [is] attractive in face, physically well, and able to attend to all her household ...
Megophrys tadpoles feed at the water surface using unusual funnel-shaped mouths. [5] Anatomy of a wood frog tadpole (Lithobates sylvaticus) As a frog tadpole matures it gradually develops its limbs, with the back legs growing first and the front legs second. The tail is absorbed into the body using apoptosis. Lungs develop around the time as ...
A magical underwater image of western toad tadpoles has won the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The winning image, “The Swarm of Life” by Canadian photojournalist Shane ...
Pseudis paradoxa, known as the paradoxical frog or shrinking frog, is a species of hylid frog from South America. [2] Its name refers to the very large—up to 27 cm (11 in) long—tadpole (the world's longest), which in turn "shrinks" during metamorphosis into an ordinary-sized frog, only about a quarter or third of its former length.
Lepidobatrachus laevis, widely known as Budgett's frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratophryidae, discovered by John Samuel Budgett. [2] It is often kept as a pet. It has acquired a number of popular nicknames, including hippo frog, [3] Freddy Krueger frog, [3] and escuerzo de agua. [4]
A 21-year-old Norwegian woman has become the youngest person to reach the South Pole on skis, solo and without assistance, her team told AFP on Tuesday. Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat ...