[Alouette]

Frog Could Be 25M Years Old

I didn't know Helen Thomas was French.

[Alouette]

Helen Thomas news trivia alert

[Strategerist]

found in Chiapas was of the genus Craugastor

I can never remember, was Craugastor a Decepticon or an Autobot?

[I got the rope]

I didn't know Helen Thomas was French.

ROTFLMAO! I have often wondered what the conversations are like around your dinner table.

[Uncle George]

Hello my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gal

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cool find! My daughter was just touring in Gdansk, Poland which has an Amber Museum. The Baltic nations apparently have some of the world's largest amber sites. I don't think she saw any amber-encased frogs, though.

[Calpernia]

ping

[mysterio]

Frogs in amber, though probably not the one in the story.

[volunbeer]

If this frog is 25 million years old where are all the intermediate species that are missing from the fossil record that one would expect in evolution?

It's interesting and certainly noteworthy but I question the estimated age given in the article.

[KarlInOhio]

Carbot said he would like to extract a sample from the frog's remains to see if they contain well-preserved DNA, in order to identify the frog's species.

Or else he wants to extract the DNA to clone them and create a vast entertainment center containing half-inch prehistoric frogs: Oligocene Park.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Jurassic Terrarium?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Helen Thomas was even too ugly for the dinosaurs!! :-P

[mmmRamen]

[aruanan]

Even more interesting, since the species is still extant, would be to compare the preserved DNA to that of a present day frog to see what kinds of changes it had undergone over the 25 million years (other than base changes from degraded DNA).