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"Frog-amander" Fossil May Be Amphibian Missing Link

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May 21, 2008
        
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Anne Casselman for National Geographic News A new fossil find may be an evolutionary missing link in the amphibian family tree, scientists say. The 290-million-year-old fossil was first collected in Texas by a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution in the mid-1990s. It was rediscovered... [read full story]                    

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