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Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

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Later the continents broke up into smaller regions such as South America, Africa, Asia and such, an a few smaller pieces like Madagascar and New Zealand as well. Verily, when it comes to news stories about evolution, mammals aren’t the only kind of animal that can be milked! This was on Gondwana.

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Frogs and Toads of the World: A Book Review by a Fairy Tale Junkie

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And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.”

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