The oldest known tadpole fossil, which belongs to this species, was found in the Patagonia region of Argentina. Gabriel Lío While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese ...
The team was actually on the hunt for dinosaur fossils, according to National Geographic. What they ended up finding was the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole on a piece of sandstone, according to ...
While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese scientists in Argentina found something else instead: parts of a tadpole’s skull and backbone, preserved in a slab of sandstone.
The discovery in Patagonia shows that frogs have had a tadpole stage for at least 160 million years. Here’s how the ancient frogs compare to those of today.
A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever of a reptile, could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of the ancient reptile dating back some 237 ...