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      Giant Frog Jumps Continents

      Posted by okami

      A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or `the frog from Hell' has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the 70 million year-old fossil frog, of a kind once thought unique to South America, lends weight to a new theory that Madagascar, India and South America were linked until late in the Age of Dinosaurs.

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    • Whales surface in Tuscany

      Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK

      Make sure that Tuscan wine is whale-free: The 10-metre fossils, the biggest found in Italy, date from four to five million years ago when the region sat on the sea bed. "This is a spectacular find," said Elisabetta Cioppi, a palaeontologist at the University of Florence, of the most recent discovery of a whale fossil just 50cm below ground level in a wheat field near Orciano Pisano.

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