Purple Frog Delights Scientists
Posted on May 5, 2007 Comments (2)
This interesting looking frog (N. sahyadrensis), discovered in India in 2003, has is in its own taxonomic family and represents the only known living example of frogs that lived alongside dinosaurs 65 million years ago, Purple frog delights scientists:
But to the scientists who describe it in the journal Nature, the frog is a beautiful find because of what it tells them about Earth history.
“It is an important discovery because it tells us something about the early evolution of advanced frogs that we would not know otherwise because there are no fossil records from this lineage,” says Franky Bossuyt, of Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
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January 28th, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
“This year ZSL [Zoological Society of London] scientists have assessed all amphibian species according to how Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) they are…”
April 7th, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
“The first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs has been found in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. The frog, named Barbourula kalimantanensis, gets all its oxygen through its skin…”