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 ...

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 ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...

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 ...

Research studies have shown that frogs, whose toxins are used for medicine, are threatened by climate change, the long-term ...

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 ...