Life Cycle of a Frog

Also called

frog life cycle · frog lifecycle · tadpole · frogspawn · frog eggs · froglet · metamorphosis · amphibian life cycle · tadpole to frog · how a tadpole becomes a frog · stages of a frog

Topics

• A typical frog life cycle has the stages eggs, tadpole, tadpole with hind legs, froglet and adult
• Eggs are laid in water, inside jelly; tadpoles hatch from them
• Tadpoles live only in water, swim with a tail and take oxygen from water with gills
• The hind legs appear first, then the front legs
• The tail is not lost all at once: it gets shorter as the body takes it back in
• The change from tadpole to frog is called metamorphosis: limbs form, the tail goes and breathing changes
• An adult frog is not just a big tadpole; it lives on land near water
• Adult frogs breathe with lungs and also through their moist skin
• Adults return to water to lay eggs, so the cycle repeats
• Different frog species develop at different speeds; some even skip the free tadpole stage

About this model

A GLB file of about 1762 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Frog life-stage models (eggs, tadpole, tadpole with hind legs, froglet, adult) by Elisa de la Peña, Tactiles (https://tactiles.eu/tactiles/frog-life-cycle/), CC BY-SA 4.0: tile bases removed, simplified, split into moving parts and recoloured. Pond diorama, arrows, markers, clock, embryo dots, pointers, breathing markers and animation made for Lably. | CC BY-SA 4.0. Contains the five frog life-stage models from Tactiles (CC BY-SA 4.0), so this model is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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