What are frog lets?

  To put it in a nutshell, frog lets are tadpoles that have almost lost their tails and that have developed legs. This happens when the tadpoles are around twelve weeks. Froglets still have a lot of growing to do before frogs. Between 12-16 weeks, the froglet totally absorbs its stubby tail, and leaves the water.

            Sometimes, the term froglet refers to a frog that skips the tadpole stage and emerges as a fully developed frog. The Namaqua rain frog is one such frog. The eggs are laid in an underground nest, and metamorphosis takes place inside the egg capsules with the young emerging as fully formed frog lets. The three toed Brazilian toadlet – which is not a toad at all but a frog – also have young ones that hatch directly from the egg.