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Fossil fossil discovered two million years ago in Argentina

Last updated: Tuesday 17 Shawwal 1441 AH – June 09, 2020 KSA 12:16 – GMT 09:16
Posted on: Tuesday 17 Shawwal 1441 AH – June 09, 2020 KSA 10:57 – GMT 07:57

Source: Buenos Aires – France Press

Argentine scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a frog that lived in the middle of this South American country about two million years ago, according to the Science Publishing Agency at the National University of Matanza.

“We don’t know much about prehistoric frogs,” said Federico Aniolan, a researcher with the Argentine Institute of Natural Sciences. “Frogs and toads are affected greatly by climatic and environmental changes, so they are an important source of information to understand past climates,” he added.

The discovery took place at a depth of 44 meters during the drilling of a water well in San Pedro, 180 km north of Buenos Aires.

The researcher stressed that the paleontologists found “the bone of the humerus is a very small amphibian being different from the hulls and frogs of trees.”

He emphasized that the small fossil was identified despite its size because the petroats, which are a group of braids that include frogs and alagalam, have a special structure at the end of the humerus in the elbow joint.

“The find makes a huge contribution to paleontology in Argentina,” said Federico Aniolan.

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