Coquí Frog Fossil Is Oldest in Caribbean (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Coquí Frog Fossil Is Oldest in Caribbean

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Researchers attribute a 29 million-year-old partial arm bone fossil to the genus Eleutherodactylus. The ancient frog, which may have resembled this reconstruction, was about an inch and a half long.

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Jorge Velez-Juarbe

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