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

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil ... [+] that’s been around since before some of the Earth’s continents formed. Whoever ...

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 ...

and combined with a lopsided smile produced by slight crushing during the preservation of the fossil, we really thought it looked like Kermit the Frog,” So said. Kermitops belonged to a group ...

There are also fossil frogs and salamanders from the Brown coals of Germany, including the type specimen of Eopelobates anthracinus. Access to some collections will be affected as we prepare for the ...

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 ...