Amber deposits yield oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

Mongabay
Jun 20, 2018, 9:16 pm181 pts
Tropical rainforests are home to the vast majority of the world’s frog species today. Yet frog fossils from these moist environments have been incredibly rare, largely because the small animals have tiny bones, which make preservation difficult, and the wet conditions usually lead to their quick…

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