sentences:  The eggs hatch into tadpoles which feed and grow over the course of several months, develop limbs, lose their tails and eventually undergo metamorphosis, becoming juvenile toads.They may overwinter as tadpoles, becoming exceptionally large in the process.The 1971 book by Arthur Koestler "The Case of the Midwife Toad", brought the species a role in new thinking on the development of scientific paradigms based on the case of Paul Kammerer who claimed to have shown Lamarckian inheritance in experiments with the toad.