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It's Not Easy Being Yellow
February 20, 2007
A miner from the Mexican state of Chiapas found what could be the world's oldest frog: a 0.4" frog encased completely in amber, found in deposits that date back 25,000,000 years. National Geographic has the story here.
People are already talking about whether there might be any recoverable DNA from the sample, a la Jurassic Park, that could be used to make a new frog. Personally, I wish there was, and we went ahead and did, only to find out that this frog was a baby frog, and the real frog when fully grown was 50' tall. Because that would be really cool - a 50' tall 25,000,000 year-old frog.
Sigh.