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.
"where are all the intermediate species that are missing from the fossil record that one would expect in evolution?"
I would guess they're either extinct or extant. ;)
"It's interesting and certainly noteworthy but I question the estimated age given in the article."
Well maybe you could tell us what method they used to date the amber why you find that method suspect?
This is one particular frog which is thought to have been alive 25 million years ago (or 40 million years after the Age of the Dinosaurs ended). Frogs are amphibians...amphibians were around before the first reptiles. The earliest amphibians predate the appearance of frogs, but the earliest frogs are thought to date back to around 200 million years ago. At least that's what evolutionary biologists seem to think.
Er, umm, that one just didn't evolve for some reason.