Frog Life Cycle
Science
The Life Cycle of Frogs
Did you know that some animals start like looking one way and then go through changes that make them look another way as adults? No. It's true, for example, a frog. That's right. Frogs are amphibians. They spend part of their lives in water and part on land. Frogs lay their eggs in a pond. The eggs have a soft shell. They must be kept wet so that they don't dry out. Then the eggs hatch into tadpoles.
The tadpoles are baby frogs. Tadpoles don't look anything like frogs. That's true. Tadpoles live only in the water. A tadpole has a tail and no legs. They swim like fish and breathe with gills. It eats plants from the water. As the tap will grow, it starts to change. It grows legs, loses its tail and loses its gills. Now, the tadpole looks like a very small frog. It can leap onto land or swim in the water.
The frog breathes with lungs instead of gills. And it eats bugs instead of plants. Soon, the small frog grows into an adult frog. It can lay eggs now. Eggs that will hatch into new tadpoles. Hey, that's the full life cycle. It sure is.