Does anyone know if newts start life as tadpoles?
My daughter and I have a tub of tadpoles that are getting enormous, and have all the freckles and spotting of newts.
2007-03-25 08:11:04 · 4 answers · asked by Dogsbody 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Can you remember what the spawn looked like! Frogs tend to lay in clumps, Toads in long strings and Newts single eggs on underside of plant leaves. It's difficult to tell by just looking at tadpoles whether they are frogs or toads and Newt tadpoles or efts are tiny miniatures of their parents with tufts of feathery external gills!
2007-03-25 08:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they do begin life as tadpoles but unfortunately they have not spawned yet. only frogs are doing that. toads and newts will spawn a little later on. these tadpoles are more likely to be frogs.
2007-03-25 18:05:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but the immature newt is called an eft, not a tadpole.
2007-03-25 15:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes they do but so do toads, and it is very difficult to say which is which at the tadpole stage, unless you very knowledgeable about them
2007-03-25 15:20:11 · answer #4 · answered by sabrina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋