All tadpoles grow into frogs, but not all frogs start out as
tadpoles, reveals a new study on 720 species of frogs to be published in the
journal Evolution. The study, “Phylogenetic analyses reveal unexpected patterns
in the evolution of reproductive modes in frogs,” led by John J. Wiens, an
Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook
University, and colleagues Ivan Gomez-Mestra from the Doñana Biological Station
in Seville, Spain, and R. Alexander Pyron from George Washington University,
uncovers the surprising evolution of life cycles in frogs.