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A Cretaceous frog with eggs found in northwestern China

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Ancient frog had a belly full of eggs in oldest fossil discovery 

of its kind. This unusual frog fossil seems to be an amphibian that

died in the process of mating by Matthew Rozsa, Salon February 9, 2024

 

The open access paper is:

 

Baoxia Du, Jing Zhang, Raúl Orencio Gómez, Liping , 

Mingzhen Zhang, Xiangtong Lei , Aijing Li,  and Shuang Dai, 

2024, A cretaceous frog with egg from northwestern China

provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal

maturity in anurans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 

Biological Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2320

 

Yours,

 

Paul

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