Hosted on MSN2mon
Meet The Purple Frog, A Dinosaur-Era “Living Fossil” That Emerged Over 80 Million Years Ago
In 2003, scientists described a new family of frogs – the first time such a discovery had been made among the anurans in around 70 years. Their prize was a weird one, a purple frog described as ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3mon
Scientists Unearth the Oldest Tadpole Fossil Ever Found, and It's a 161-Million-Year-Old 'Giant'
While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and ... The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to ...