<i>Hyla sanchiangensis</i> (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

<i>Hyla sanchiangensis</i>

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The frog Hyla sanchiangensis from eastern China is a descendant of one of three lineages (Hyloidea) that made it through Earth's last mass extinction 66 million years ago to flourish worldwide today. It's ancestors diversified out of South America.

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Image courtesy of Peng Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University.

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