BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Purple frog delights scientists: "'It is an important discovery because it tells us something about the early evolution of advanced frogs that we would not know otherwise because there are no fossil records from this lineage,' says Franky Bossuyt, of Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
Geological pathways
Bossuyt and colleague S D Biju, of the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in Kerala, say N. sahyandrensis is related to a family of frogs in the Seychelles called Sooglossidae.
DNA analysis suggests the common ancestor of the animals lived 130 million years ago, when the planet's landmasses were joined together into a giant supercontinent called Gondwana."
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Purple frog delights scientists
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