A tadpole-like beastie similar to the chordate amphioxus. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Macleod has just given me, from his namesake of the 3rd Cavalry, a tadpole-like animal, very similar to one from the Khasiya Hills. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Abruptly, within the ichor-stained folds of the corpse's purple tunic, something stirred, then wriggled out tadpole-like across the ground, seeking to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
ID creationists claims that all animal body plans developed in an implausibly short period of time in the Cambrian are refuted by this small tadpole-like ancestor. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Falling to earth as a cloud of spores, Hedorah hatched into millions of microscopic tadpole-like creatures which began to feed upon the toxins mankind had poisoned its air and water with. From Wordnik.com. [Godzilla Hedorah | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
The opening images of untold tons of garbage collected in the ocean sets an appropriately queasy tone; soon, multiple tadpole-like Hedorah monsters are born of the mineral waste, laying waste to ships at sea before merging together into a creature capable of coming ashore and, eventually, flight the parallels to basic evolutionary theory are amusing, but, alas, go relatively untapped. From Wordnik.com. [Screening Log: Dirty Harry, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan and The Limits of Control] Reference
The whimsical cartoony illustration shows a smiling tadpole-like creature wearing sunglasses. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
Now, if so, how long would it take to obtain an elephant from a protozoon or even from a tadpole-like fish?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Habit] Reference
They were not walking, they were indeed limbless, and they had the appearance of human heads, beneath which a tadpole-like body swung. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
The vigorous motility of the tadpole-like organisms is obvious to anyone who has ever seen fresh semen under the microscope; and if it is correct, as Clifton. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
The tadpole-like stages of the sea-squirts, which in adult life are to be found attached to rocks like weeds, drift about in the surface waters until their time comes for settling down in life. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
This condition, called neoteny, means it keeps its tadpole-like dorsal fin, which runs almost the length of its body, and its feathery external gills, which protrude from the back of its wide head. From Wordnik.com. Reference
One of them, with a big head, tadpole-like tail and generally frayed and sea-tattered appearance, is, in fact, accepted in some quarters as a ray, while the shovel-like skate is commonly regarded as a shark. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
He pointed out that ordinary Ascidians begin life as tiny tadpole-like creatures which swim freely by the aid of a long caudal appendage; and that while these better-known Ascidians lose their tails when they settle down into adult life, the Appendiculariæ are. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
Taking the audience to another planet, "Terra" is beautifully designed, from the naturalistic, artistic community of the Terrians (better to contrast with the humans 'metallic, unfeeling edge) to their tadpole-like visualization, which has the characters wiggling endearingly around the frame. From Wordnik.com. [Ohmynews International] Reference
He pointed out that ordinary Ascidians begin life as tiny tadpole-like creatures which swim freely by the aid of a long caudal appendage; and that while these better-known Ascidians lose their tails when they settle down into adult life, the Appendiculariae are Ascidians which retain this larval structure throughout life. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work]
Now, if so, "how long would it take to obtain an elephant from a protozoon, or even from a tadpole-like fish?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
EDIT: I’d say it was “a collection of spores” – that hatched into microscopic tadpole-like creatures that merged into one giant one” —” Hedorah is a monster from space that fed on pollution. From Wordnik.com. [Godzilla Hedorah | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
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