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Massive Fossil Breaks Record as The World's Oldest TadpoleAt more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million ...
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Scientists Unearth the Oldest Tadpole Fossil Ever Found, and It’s a 161-Million-Year-Old ‘Giant’The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to around 217 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, but the ...
A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found.
The amphibian wasn’t just ancient ... degiustoi was big throughout its life, much like the modern American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus). The fossil tadpole also appears to have fed like modern ...
The fossil is strikingly similar to the tadpoles ... day tadpoles use to sift food particles from water. That means the amphibians' survival strategy has stayed tried and true for millions of ...
Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock finding that could alter our understanding of amphibian evolution, experts say. Paleontologists made the ...
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