After weeks or months, these larvae undergo a process of metamorphosis, which see the tadpoles change into frogs—growing legs, lungs to breathe on land, changing mouthparts to eat meat rather ...

Most frogs and other amphibians hatch as fish-like larvae called tadpoles, or "pollywogs." Tadpoles exist to eat and grow. They eventually transform into froglets, a process called metamorphosis.

J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon hatching,” Entomol Sci, 22:393–97, 2019. While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians ...