Depiction of the ancient tadpole and an adult frog in a mid-Jurassic pond (Credit: Gabriel Lío/ CC-BY-SA-2.0)

A team of scientists looking for dinosaur fossils in 2020 made a rare discovery. They found a well-preserved tadpole dating back 161 million years to the middle Jurassic period. This discovery breaks the record for the oldest known tadpole fossil by about 20 million years!