Old Science, New Twists: Ancient Frog Fossils Disrupt 100-Year-Old Beliefs

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Old Science, New Twists: Ancient Frog Fossils Disrupt 100-Year-Old Beliefs
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Paleontologists discovered that the exceptional preservation of 45-million-year-old frog fossils can be attributed to the mineralization of their skin, offering new insights into their adaptation to land.

Paleontologists Daniel Falk and Prof. Maria McNamara, together with scientists from Ireland, Germany, and the UK, studied 45-million-year-old fossil frogs from the Geiseltal site in central Germany. Remarkably, the fossils show full body outlines of the soft tissues. The team discovered that the excellent condition of the fossil frogs is due to preservation of ancient skin remnants.

“Fossil soft tissues often reveal hidden information about the biology of animals,” said senior author Prof. Maria McNamara. “We discovered that the fossil frog skin is preserved in the same way as fossil frogs from other sites in Europe.“This discovery is very exciting because it overturns scientific opinion that has lasted for almost one hundred years.

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