The specimen of Apateon pedestris from Niederhäslich shows soft tissue preservation and form. The collection includes a considerable number of specimens of Palaeogene amphibians from Hampshire and the ...
More surprisingly, the amphibian fossil turned out to be 161 million years old, breaking the record for the oldest known ...
The relatively short hind legs suggest some kind of primordial toad. The Amphibian Fossil is an Artifact item used initially in the Museum, and to create various types of Fertilizer. Special ...
Kermit the Frog meet Kermitops gratus, the most recent ancient amphibian to be identified after examination of a tiny ...
There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit – or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog. Scientists on ...
In 4 July Nature, Jennifer Clack at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK, describes a near complete fossil amphibian that casts light on the limb development of these tetrapods (Nature 2002 ...
Hellbenders may not be pretty to everyone, but these strictly aquatic salamanders are as interesting as their awesome name implies — and they grow up to 2 feet long and sometimes top 4 pounds, making ...