Imagate courtesy of Simon Pierre Barrette, José Grau de Puerto Montt, and Mats
Wedin/Swedish Museum of Natural History, fair use doctrine.
Joel Kontinen
Can you imagine frogs in snow-covered, frigid Antarctica?
A recent fossil discovery has significant implications for Earth’s climate
history as well as the fossil record.
In April 2020, a Swedish paleontologist, Dr. Thomas
Mörs of Stockholm’s Naturhistorika Riksmuseet (Royal Museum of
Natural History), published the first report of fossilized frog bones ever
found in Antarctica.
The frog was said to be 40 million years old. This
study brings to mind Noah’s Flood that ravaged the Earth
4,500 years ago. Before that, Antartica was probably non existent,.
But they have found dinosaur bones in Canada as well as petrified forest in Antartica.
Source:
Joel Lucas, 2020, Shows Cold-Blooded Frogs Lived on Warm Antarctica. Tthe New York Times 23 April.
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