A research team in Indonesia has shown that there is a species of frog that does not lay eggs and gives birth to tadpoles. The discovery was made by a herpetologist at the University of California, Jim McGuire. This is the first time when a frog species has been found giving birth to live tadpoles.

The discovery has been published on December 31 in the journal PLOS ONE. While talking about the discovery, McGuire said, "This new frog is one of only 10 or 12 species that has evolved internal fertilization, and of those, it is the only one that gives birth to tadpoles, as opposed to froglets or laying fertilized eggs".

According to McGuire, he and his colleagues have named the frog 'Limnonectes larvaepartus', which lives in Indonesia. The species is a fanged frog as it has two lower jaw projections.

While talking about the new species, Ben Tapley, team leader of herpetology at the Zoological Society of London, said it is not difficult to discover a new species of frog, but finding a different reproductive mode is rare. It was surprising to find that frogs can give birth to tadpoles instead of laying eggs, Tapley added.