Imagine tracing your family tree not just to distant ancestors, but to creatures that once swam in primordial seas and hopped ...

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs ...

The early fossil record of amphibians and their ancestors is largely fragmentary, which makes it difficult to understand how frogs, salamanders and their kin originated. Adding relatives like ...

In 2023, they released research claiming to have found the first molecular evidence of the ginger pigment in the fossil record – in frog fossils that are 10m years old. Don’t miss out on the ...

This specimen is from Texas, U.S.A. An 8-6 million year old specimen of a fossil frog Rana pueyoi from the Late Miocene, Teruel, Spain. The collection includes a considerable number of specimens of ...

Experts say the fossil shows the evolution of frogs and toads, revealing that tadpoles today are very similar to their ancient relatives. The fossil was discovered by chance, whilst scientists ...

Note: Fossil skull of Kermitops; USNM PAL 407585, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Note: Kermit the Frog puppet; 1994.0037.01, Gift of Jim Henson Productions. From the ...