Researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have stumbled upon the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old amphibian forebear. The fossil has been identified as a new proto-amphibian species named Kermitops gratus, in tribute to the iconic Muppet character, Kermit the Frog.
Researchers at the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History have stumbled upon the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old amphibian forebear. As per the discovery published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society on March 21, the researchers identified the fossil as a new proto-amphibian species named Kermitops gratus, in tribute to the iconic Muppet character, Kermit the Frog.
Calvin So, a doctoral candidate at George Washington University and the study's primary author, said naming the newfound creature after the adored frog character—a creation of puppeteer Jim Henson in 1955—as a chance to spark enthusiasm for the scientific findings unearthed through museum collections. 'Using the name Kermit has significant implications for how we can bridge the science that is done by paleontologists in museums to the general public,' So said
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