by Alex Steelsmith

“The oldest known fossil tadpole was a big baby… A newly detailed fossil finding
pushes the record for earliest known tadpoles back an additional 30 million years…
The petrified [fossil] shows that the… characteristics of tadpoles had already
evolved in some of the earliest frogs.”
—Science News

Wiggledy-woggledy
primitive pollywog,
death was apparently
scary for you;

paleontologists
sadly report you were
only a baby, and
petrified too.