Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

If we now plainly perceive that the passage of the blood from the arteries into the veins of the tadpole is not performed in any other than those vessels, which are so minute as only to admit the passage of a single globule at a time, we may conclude that the same is performed in like manner in our own bodies and in those of other animals.

Dutch Scientist

Big Show

I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.

American Wrestler

John Gurdon

Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage.

English Scientist

Daisy May Cooper

I love being outside in nature, especially by the water - if I could, I would come back as a tadpole so that I could just swim around all the time and have zero responsibility.

English Actress

Sam Kean

The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

American Writer

William S. Burroughs

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

William Joyce

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

American Author

DeForest Kelley

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

American Actor

Toni Braxton

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

American Musician

A tadpole is a stage in the life cycle of amphibians, not a separate creature.

Life Stage

Tadpoles undergo metamorphosis, meaning they change form as they grow into adult frogs or toads.

Physical Change

Tadpoles are aquatic, which means they live in water until they mature.

Habitat Context

 I urge you to do something. Right now, we're all tadpoles, but I urge you to become a big frog and take that big, green leap. I don't care if you're on the left, on the right, up the middle, wherever. Join me. Use -- I've got a lot of energy. Help me use it. We can do something here. And along the way, please take time to smell the flowers, especially if you and your students grew them.

Stephen Ritz: A teacher...

 That's how a lot of us think about this. That model leaves too many deep mysteries. Can you share with us some of those mysteries and also what tadpoles have to do with it? Sure. Yeah. I'd like to give you another perspective on this problem.

Michael Levin: The...

 and other disease vectors, thus, protecting us against malaria, dengue fever, and other illnesses. Tadpoles keep waterways clean by feeding on algae, reducing the demand on our community's filtration systems and keeping our cost of water low.

Why are frogs...

 That's stagnant right they're. Not interested in that. Why is it important to have rapidly moving water? In a stagnant pond, what do you get if you're down south maybe in the lower world? Tadpoles, slime-- you're going to get sick.

Getting Water in the...

 a fly out of it maybe does no leg does no food whatever that's walk around the most important thing about this nature products is that they are bio-friendly put them all on your fish bones no tadpoles will die now another enemy of

Innovative and cost...

 foiling the predators below take a look at some super close-up micro camera footage of a frog taking the journey from egg to tadpole here captured on film is the miracle of life when the tadpoles outgrow the birth chamber they

Trials of a Tadpole PIPE...

 recognizable tadpole it's ready to hatch and drop into the water but there are fish just waiting for a plump delicious helpless tadpole talk about fate the possibility of being gobbled by a vine

Red-eyed Tree Frog's...

 it's a powerful incentive for him to stay. There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools.

African Bullfrog Dad...

 they drip into the pond as more advanced tadpoles better able to defend themselves

Top 5 Slithering Snake...

 but these tadpoles are not as helpless as they might appear