Instead, the hollow interior fills with water and provides a home for new life to begin — via frog eggs. A new species of tree frog was discovered laying its eggs in the tiny bamboo shaft ...

It represents the oldest known gravid frog, as no other fossil from this period has been found with eggs still inside. The rare preservation of soft tissues makes it even more remarkable, since ...

The animal lays eggs in the tiny puddles created on top of broken bamboo, researchers said. Patrick Hendry via Unsplash When a trunk of bamboo snaps in the forests of the Huaping National Natural ...