Frog in amber may be 25M years old
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A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found in Mexico, according to David Grimaldi, a biologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the find.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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According to the first global assessment of amphibians, disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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The cane toad is growing so big and hopping so rapidly into new territory that they are developing severe arthritis.
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MEXICO CITY - A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said.
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The growing number of deformed frogs in recent years is caused at least partly by runoff from farming and ranching, new research indicates.
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By Larry Gierer, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 12--Elijah Johnson looked at the camera and noticed stuff "oozing out of it." It was a 20-year-old Nikon -- and the batteries hadn't been changed in more than six years.
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By Tony Spinelli, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 3--MONROE -- The salamanders wriggled and splashed in the plastic container as a group of 10-year-old boys crouched beside it in the woods near Webb Mountain Park.   The boys, including 10-year-old Tyler Schiumo, were enthralled.
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To the perceptive nose, the honey-colored soap in the square plastic bottle is the scent of geraniums and lavender with a touch of vanilla. To 14-year-old Emma Liu, it is also the scent of hope and possibility.
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French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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Eye of newt and toe of frog may one day be gone from witches grog. Indeed, not just frogs and newts but amphibians in general are rapidly becoming threatened worldwide, a new study shows.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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A mushroom found embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber is about 20 million years older than other known mushroom fossils, an Oregon scientist says.
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Vertebrate Paleontologist Amy C. Henrici of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh holds a stone fossil of a new genus and species of terrestrial adopted amphibian that lived in the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, Monday
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Researchers have found a unique compound, similar to that of a modern tree resin, in amber.