Biologists in india have found what is claimed to be a 130 million old species of frog.

 

"The seven-centimeter long amphibian hopped around the feet of dinosaurs. Researchers say the small-headed critter belongs to a new family of frogs thought to have disappeared millions of years ago.

 

Scientists estimated the frog family tree split about 230 million years ago. The discovery suggests this frog branched off 130 million years ago when Gondwana lost its eastern end. "

 

The species is described in this week's Nature.

 

Read the full news article here.

Purple frogs are cool. I want one!

they probably shoot poisonous spikes out of odd places. What say we scrounge some money together and buy one for Faf's christmas present?

Oldest and UGLIEST.

I'd lick it.

WHERE!!1??!/69!ONE

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Wow that is cool. So why did they just barely discover it? Is it extremely rare or did the Indian people hide them from scientists or what? My point is how many other species are there, that aren't really hidden, but just never anyone wondered to go study them. Could i discover a new bug species in my backyard? Last summer i found this tiny gray bug with orange spots (in the flower bed i was weeding fo my mamma) and i caught it because i'd never seen it before, but when i decided to set it free, i saw that there were actually a significant amount of them crawling all around.

Small head ??

I would believe you if you said that that is his behind.

 

P.S. blike, where do you keep finding those 'ugly' pics?

Hooow sweet and sooooo cute.

 

Just like Dudde.

 

I got the oldest living species of something or other living under my fridge, I can`t quite get to it, but I think it maybe a peice of cheese from 1986? (he`s a cute furry little fella though)

lol dudde, it was a reference to a drug craze where people were trying to lick the back of certain frogs to get a high.

I dunno if you'd get high licking that sucker. you might GO high, but not get high.

 

that frog now holds a special place in my heart.

Wow that is cool. So why did they just barely discover it? Is it extremely rare or did the Indian people hide them from scientists or what? My point is how many other species are there, that aren't really hidden, but just never anyone wondered to go study them. Could i discover a new bug species in my backyard?

 

At my last uni (I moved this year) there was a post doc who had just found her 500th species. Pretty amazing as she only studied some type of marine worm. We've only classified a small percentage of the species, but many of the remaining are in remote areas.

that purple frog looks like a mole, and mucuous membrane all in one...that's almost fowl

Believe me, I don't want to lick it.

no licky licky

I say, I would go EEEEEW!

cool

[ta=right][/ta']Biologists in india have found what is claimed to be a 130 million old species of frog.

Hey Blike, I'll call you, and raise you 170 million.

 

Geologists excavating an old mine in eastern Ohio have found a 300-million-year old cockroach that measures nearly 3.5 inches long, making it the largest and oldest living cockroach.

http://www.crystalinks.com/cockroaches.html

Ummm, Dougy-baby, that's not the olldest living cockroach, mostly cuz' it ain't livin' no more. It is the largest cockroach ever, just not anymore. Also, the site you linked us to says it was one of the oldest ever discovered, not the oldest ever uncovered.

 

Dead, fossilized, kaput.

Oh yeah. That frog is so cuuuuuuuuuute!!!! I could just cuddle it and stroke it and blow it kisses from a foot or two away.

Ummm' date=' Dougy-baby, that's not the olldest living cockroach, mostly cuz' it ain't livin' no more. It is the largest cockroach ever, just not anymore. Also, the site you linked us to says it was one of the oldest [i']ever[/i] discovered, not the oldest ever uncovered.

 

Dead, fossilized, kaput.

I'm chuckling AzurePhoenix, you've got a good sense of humor.