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The tadpole of the South American
The frog is camouflaged paradoxical frog keeps on growing
to blend in with the dense until it is 25 cm (10 in) long. Only
green vegetation growing then does it start to mature into a frog,
in the water.
losing its tail and eventually shrinking
to one-third of the size of the tadpole.

Adult frog 7.5 cm (3 in)

A paradoxical frog FAST FACTS
tadpole grows as
long as the average
woman’s shoe. The Most frogs go through the same
paradoxical process of metamorphosis – developing
tadpole is from an egg to a small tadpole to a large
three times the adult frog. However, a paradoxical frog
size of the tadpole grows until it is supersize, then
adult frog. shrinks into a frog.

1 Fertilized
6 Tailless eggs 2 Newly
adult frog hatched
tadpole

3 Fully
5 Shrinking grown
froglet tadpole

4 Tadpole
Fully grown tadpole 25 cm (10 in) with limbs

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