A remarkable 100-million-year-old frog fossil discovered in northwest China is providing scientists with a rare glimpse into ...

The fossilization process itself can take anywhere from a matter of days to millions of years. Waiting for mineral-rich ...

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

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 ...

A team of researchers has rediscovered a frog species which has not been seen in more than 130 years. First described in 1902, Alsodes vittatus had evaded detection since then, despite multiple search ...

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 ...

Photo: Courtesy of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A new ...

Scientists call it a "living fossil" because it looks almost identical to its ancient ancestors. This amphibian spends most of its life underground. The purple frog emerges only for a few days ...

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 ...