How a mass extinction event gave us the majority of frogs alive today

Mongabay
Jul 11, 2017, 12:59 pm227 pts
There are three orders in the class Amphibia, collectively comprising nearly 7,700 species. Of those three, the order Anura, which includes frogs and toads, represents 6,787 of the world’s known amphibian species, spread across 55 families. It’s believed that frogs diverged from the other orders of…

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