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New fossil evidence suggests that embolomeres did not undergo a metamorphosis the way that modern amphibians do when growing up, which challenges a long-standing scientific belief that amphibians, reptiles, and mammals evolved from animals that had a tadpole stage. Image credit: Berit Godring.

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Earth’s First Land Animals May Never Have Been Amphibian-Like After All

June 20, 2026

Paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History have described the fossilized remains of baby embolomeres, crocodile-like predators…

The ancient marine amphibians Erythrobatrachus (foreground) and Aphaneramma (background) swimming along the coast of what is now far norther Western Australia 250 million years ago. Image credit: Pollyanna von Knorring, Swedish Museum of Natural History.

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Early Triassic Fossils from Australia Uncover Diverse Marine Amphibian Community

February 25, 2026

Several 250-million-year-old specimens from museum collections in Australia and the United States have revealed a surprising diversity of…

Falk et al. show that the geometry of melanosomes in the eyespots of fossil frogs from the Miocene and Eocene is similar to that of ocular melanosomes in living frogs. Image credit: Falk et al., doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220.

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Study Sheds New Light on Evolutionary Success of Frogs

December 29, 2025

Frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years, according to new research led by University…