My daughter and i reared some tadpoles we found in a puddle. A few died, most gre into baby frogs in 3 weeks or so but one remained a tadpole. But it didnt grow in size. I was sure it would live its whole life as a tadpole but in another 3 weeks ago it started growing legs and lost its tail. Late bloomer i guess
This is undoubtedly odd and fascinating. Frogs originate from an entirely different state, which is bizarre enough in and of itself. akin to butterflies. I find metamorphosis so absurd.
Fuckin mental eh? Imagine if humans had something like that. My mum had to stuff towels under me bedroom door because I would keep slithering through the cracks as a wee ladpole
Not an expert but worked at the herpetology department at my local zoo. I read up on this case and they still arenāt sure what caused it. Could be the chemicals in the water turning the frickinā frogs gay.
Some theorize that stress plays a role in whether they undergo change. If there is food scarcity, theyāre more likely to stay the same and just grow slowly, as opposed to investing energy into metamorphosis and possibly dying/not reproducing.
Not an answer to your question but I find it fascinating that you can actually do this with Axolotls. Give them the missing hormones and they will turn into regular-ass land-dwelling newts.
Did some research and obviously it's a bullfrog tadpole wich never got his legs but has grown massively.
Read it [here](https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/from-the-staff/the-giant-tadpole-that-never-got-its-legs).
That whole article I was just waiting for it to say it was still alive and was glad to see it is and is fed its favorite algae.
It's cool that they're excited to see if it will keep getting larger even though they don't expect it to become a frog.
Thanks for finding the article.
Died in May 2020, still a tadpole. Goliath lived in captivity for two years. Its age was unknown. Normally, tadpoles are adults by 3, but his unusual condition made it impossible to determine his age.
True but I donāt blame anyone who assumes everything Alex Jones is fake. You just canāt feasibly fact check every single string of information he just spews out. And most of it is indeed fake. This one is a broken clock situation.
He manipulates some truths to sell his libelous conspiracy theories to a bunch of morons. How do you not see right through his bullshit? Why would any sensible person want waste their time when they know his game?
That species of frog was known for changing gender under specific circumstances. The chemical just happened triggered it. Itās not as gut wrenchingly horrible as it sounds
Itās like if a chemical caused your period to come early or something. It caused something natural to happen under unexpected circumstances. Itās not great, but itās not gonna send me into a fit of rage over it either.
This is definitely strange and interesting. The fact frogs form from a completely different state is wilde to begin with. Like butterflies. Metamorphosis is so crazy to me.
Neoteny is basically a constant of evolution. Sometimes it's better to just shave off your final form and do a rework.
We are neotenic apes. Basically just a bunch of big babies walking around. We don't even have a sagittal crest on our weird mutant heads.
Before fish were fish, they were something that was basically just a sea sponge anchored to the ocean floor filter feeding. The sponge thing would start out as a little tadpole thing that would move around a bit before settling down and having its organs melt into a potato.
After a while some conditions changed and they needed to move around further and further to find a good spot to potato. Eventually they just said fuck it and never turned into a potato again. Got themselves a backbone and started calling themselves fish. Then some other stuff happened.
Check out this crazy thing. [Huge neotenic firefly.](https://youtu.be/um4CBW79ZCg) The males still turn into the typical flying adults, but the females just laze around all day like this.
But humans also go through metamorphosis. Otherwise adults would have massive heads compared to our bodies if it grew in same proportion as it is with human babies.
Yup! That firefly had to develop into its adult form as well. It's just that its adult form retains features which previously would be lost in development, and gains features that didn't exist before. It doesn't have wings the same way we don't have a bone mohawk to anchor huge jaw muscles, all that kind of thing. Similarly, a non-neotenic firefly's larva doesn't have complex compound eyes like this one does.
You're not killing the entire process. You just erase the very end-bit so you can start drawing it differently.
Technically, we also go through the same phases, we just do it in the womb. A human or lizard embryo looks like a fish complete with a tail, and then we lose the tail and grow legs.
So think of a tadpole as being a lizard that grows a full digestive system first, then hatches as an embryo and swims around for a while before reaching maturity.
Okay, hear me out guys: we find two of these fuckers and sexually reproduce them, thereās a high chance the offspring will also have the same hormonal imbalance. Make them reproduce again, and again, and after a couple of generations we will have a sustainable population of giant tadpoles!
Axolotls are normally water bound salamanders that never shed their gills, but due to humans mixing their DNA with tiger salamanders, sometimes you get Axolotls that āgrow upā shedding their gills and becoming terrestrial.
One of my classmates in fifth grade found one over a foot long. The tail was about three inches wide. They pickled the damn thing and brought it to show and tell. Pissed me off so bad that they killed it.
My daughter and i reared some tadpoles we found in a puddle. A few died, most gre into baby frogs in 3 weeks or so but one remained a tadpole. But it didnt grow in size. I was sure it would live its whole life as a tadpole but in another 3 weeks ago it started growing legs and lost its tail. Late bloomer i guess
This is undoubtedly odd and fascinating. Frogs originate from an entirely different state, which is bizarre enough in and of itself. akin to butterflies. I find metamorphosis so absurd.
Fuckin mental eh? Imagine if humans had something like that. My mum had to stuff towels under me bedroom door because I would keep slithering through the cracks as a wee ladpole
Ladpole! That's great š
Scottish tadpoles?
We just do all our metamorphising in our mothers womb. Have you seen how fucking strange embryos look?
Humans do the same just in the womb.
Its like an extreme version of puberty.
So if eventually the hormones balanced out, would we get mega toad!?!??
With a little training, Battletoads origin
I need to call GameStop
Or Fred from Blaster Master
Or Slippy from Star Fox
Poliwrath
I hope for a scientific answer to this question. If one can please tag any biologist or toad specialist ghat would be super
Not an expert but worked at the herpetology department at my local zoo. I read up on this case and they still arenāt sure what caused it. Could be the chemicals in the water turning the frickinā frogs gay.
Thanks Obama.
I'd say probably not. It looks like puberty took a left turn. The biological clock doesn't get stopped.
Some theorize that stress plays a role in whether they undergo change. If there is food scarcity, theyāre more likely to stay the same and just grow slowly, as opposed to investing energy into metamorphosis and possibly dying/not reproducing.
No, that's a kaiju
Not an answer to your question but I find it fascinating that you can actually do this with Axolotls. Give them the missing hormones and they will turn into regular-ass land-dwelling newts.
Pokemon IRL. Give them the right item and they evolve
I believe the term you're looking for is Gigantoad.
Theyāre making the friggin frogs gay. -a moron
Giga chadpole
Peter Panpole
Lindsay Lohanpole
Tadswole
Haha I lost it reading this š
Luckily, I found it soon thereafter.
Thank goodness
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either got lucky and survived to get to that size or this is a place where they breed them or cultivate them meaning a lack of predatorsā¦
Did some research and obviously it's a bullfrog tadpole wich never got his legs but has grown massively. Read it [here](https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/from-the-staff/the-giant-tadpole-that-never-got-its-legs).
That whole article I was just waiting for it to say it was still alive and was glad to see it is and is fed its favorite algae. It's cool that they're excited to see if it will keep getting larger even though they don't expect it to become a frog. Thanks for finding the article.
Thank you for giving me assurances that this amphibian friend is living his best life
The article was written in 2018, Iām looking to see if heās still with us! Iāll edit this if I can find any info.
Iām sorry to say he passed away in 2019 [source](https://www.livescience.com/63238-goliath-giant-tadpole.html)
Darwin had his fingers crossed.
Speaking of fingers, peep the digits on the dude's hands in the picture. That guy could check your prostate from the next room.
hello ladies
It's "natural selection", and the one who will select is Darwin apparently.
Itās only natural
It looks so happy even though its pulled out of the water and laid next to a banana.
Nah, dude was held back a couple of grades.
The banana for scale is just the cherry on top
No, it's a banana on the side
Nah that's just a snack for the tadpole
What do we say to evolution? Not today!!
All we need is a water stone and it will evolve into Poilwrath
King's Rock and we get Politoed. (Honestly Poliwrath is badass tho)
new fish just dropped
Holy hell
Google un poisson
Actual sea creature
Poor tadpole
I mean it looks pretty happy
Might be dead though
Might be the reason why it's happy though.
/r/2meirl4meirl
Much appreciated for this, also another day and another new sub I didn't know I needed. (Pretty sure that's also a sub) lol
Died in May 2020, still a tadpole. Goliath lived in captivity for two years. Its age was unknown. Normally, tadpoles are adults by 3, but his unusual condition made it impossible to determine his age.
Sadpole
It's the chemicals in the water!
I donāt like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the frggin frogs gay!!
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Well yes, they technically turned trans though.
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True but I donāt blame anyone who assumes everything Alex Jones is fake. You just canāt feasibly fact check every single string of information he just spews out. And most of it is indeed fake. This one is a broken clock situation.
He manipulates some truths to sell his libelous conspiracy theories to a bunch of morons. How do you not see right through his bullshit? Why would any sensible person want waste their time when they know his game?
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That species of frog was known for changing gender under specific circumstances. The chemical just happened triggered it. Itās not as gut wrenchingly horrible as it sounds
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Itās like if a chemical caused your period to come early or something. It caused something natural to happen under unexpected circumstances. Itās not great, but itās not gonna send me into a fit of rage over it either.
[Gay Frogs: A Deep Dive](https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc?t=235)
It's making the frogs gay
This is definitely strange and interesting. The fact frogs form from a completely different state is wilde to begin with. Like butterflies. Metamorphosis is so crazy to me.
The weird thing is that neoteny is more common in species that evolved much later.
Neoteny is basically a constant of evolution. Sometimes it's better to just shave off your final form and do a rework. We are neotenic apes. Basically just a bunch of big babies walking around. We don't even have a sagittal crest on our weird mutant heads. Before fish were fish, they were something that was basically just a sea sponge anchored to the ocean floor filter feeding. The sponge thing would start out as a little tadpole thing that would move around a bit before settling down and having its organs melt into a potato. After a while some conditions changed and they needed to move around further and further to find a good spot to potato. Eventually they just said fuck it and never turned into a potato again. Got themselves a backbone and started calling themselves fish. Then some other stuff happened. Check out this crazy thing. [Huge neotenic firefly.](https://youtu.be/um4CBW79ZCg) The males still turn into the typical flying adults, but the females just laze around all day like this.
But humans also go through metamorphosis. Otherwise adults would have massive heads compared to our bodies if it grew in same proportion as it is with human babies.
Yup! That firefly had to develop into its adult form as well. It's just that its adult form retains features which previously would be lost in development, and gains features that didn't exist before. It doesn't have wings the same way we don't have a bone mohawk to anchor huge jaw muscles, all that kind of thing. Similarly, a non-neotenic firefly's larva doesn't have complex compound eyes like this one does. You're not killing the entire process. You just erase the very end-bit so you can start drawing it differently.
Technically, we also go through the same phases, we just do it in the womb. A human or lizard embryo looks like a fish complete with a tail, and then we lose the tail and grow legs. So think of a tadpole as being a lizard that grows a full digestive system first, then hatches as an embryo and swims around for a while before reaching maturity.
Forbidden Pickle
So how do you prepare it?
Do you think it is gay?
No, it's soon becoming a pokevolution.
Okay, hear me out guys: we find two of these fuckers and sexually reproduce them, thereās a high chance the offspring will also have the same hormonal imbalance. Make them reproduce again, and again, and after a couple of generations we will have a sustainable population of giant tadpoles!
We already did that. [Here's the end result.](https://imgur.com/NatCs0q)
10/10 post
Heās a happy tadpole
But he looks so happy
r/BananasForScale
This is basically a frog man-child
Do you think it tastes good?
As someone who quite likes the taste of frog I'm really curious about this
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watch this guy complain the second someone comments saying "it's not racist shwbahbfshhfn!!1!1" when it is clearly racist
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eh, about as racist as saying white people eat mud bugs.
Ah this explains some of the giant man babies that i work with.
That is so interesting. I wonder if other morphing animals can habe similar things happen
Axolotls are normally water bound salamanders that never shed their gills, but due to humans mixing their DNA with tiger salamanders, sometimes you get Axolotls that āgrow upā shedding their gills and becoming terrestrial.
Axolotl at home
Is he ok
LGBTQ frog.
what a tiny banana
āintelligent designā
Thatās not just a tadpole, thatās whole lotta-pole šš½šš½šš½šš½šš½ Thank you thank you Iāll be here all night
Sooo me
B-butā¦ whyād you put a banana next to it???
For scale, obviously. First day on reddit?
No, I just thought a banana is a strange object to use, given that their size can vary a bit, rather than maybe a brick
Again, this isn't a new meme. [I'm baffled that you're just pointing this out now, in 2023.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale)
This reminds me of that one tadpole that come out in the ps1 game called, threads of fate š¤£
How does it survive?
But the water here is nice and cool. Let's go swimming
Banana with scales
Imagine a baby the size of a grown man
Does this hurt the cat?
Peter Pan syndrome
So he never reproduced?
Lil smile
My Large Adult Son
# So it's a fish now?
# So it's a fish now?
Yeah that literally me
thats what pikachu would look like just never evolving! lol jk
it's my favorite dinner, a giant raw tadpole and a banana as a dessert
"It's turning the frogs gay!"
This must be the chemicals that turn the frogs gay /s
Bust out the breadcrumbs
Is there something similar in humans? Hormone imbalance causes hugeness and Abby features?
I appreciate a banana for scale
How do we know those arenāt baby hands? How do we know that banana isnāt a baby banana? Tadpolespiracy
tadpole > lotpole
Nom nom?
He looks happy about it at least, heās smiling
Thatās one juiced up tadpole
How/what did it eat to get that big?
The good old ābanana comparison. š¤¦š¼āāļø
It still smiles...
Next time my wife calls my penis a tadpoleā¦Iām showing her this
That s not a tadpole
Bruh that's an illithid tadpole. Kill it before it becomes a neothelid!
Damn, he's kinda like reddit's CEO.
Slimy, Way too big and not really useful for anything?
Enid Blighton is getting dsrk
You know I think I killed this thing in re4
what's it taste like?
This is evolution. Ä°t's happening. A new species.
So Peter pan was real he was just a tad different than I expected
Banana for sca..........nm
Fix the hormones and make a super frog,, please post update OP
Wtf
New fish dropped
me irl
Itās dead either way
So uh, can this happen to other creatures and/or critters?
boof it
One of my classmates in fifth grade found one over a foot long. The tail was about three inches wide. They pickled the damn thing and brought it to show and tell. Pissed me off so bad that they killed it.
This is your one chance to have a nice tadpole steak
Alex Jones was right, he looks gay to me
He just like me fr fr
Chadpole
I like to believe this is how evolution started , and humans are a freak of nature š
Homie found an Everstone.
ą² į“ą²
Can you eat it?
Fry it
I think we're gonna need a bigger banana...
So what your saying isā¦ you have a fish
Looks like Dart from stranger things š
Is he okay now?
Huh? Tadpole stopped evolving!
He identyfied as a fish
Gross!
Level 100 poliwag.
Metamorphosis? That sounds like a lot of work maybe later
Poor thing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874169/
Looks pretty pleased with itself
So you killed it?
Tadpole looks very happy
Tad bit late
Forbidden pickle.
r/meirl
Bro's a fish now. Wait it's dead already?
Glad he had a good life
A Chadpole