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ZeroCool@piefed.ca to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

A new species of Ice Age toad discovered at La Brea Tar Pits: The spadefoot toad Spea labreae

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A new species of Ice Age toad discovered at La Brea Tar Pits: The spadefoot toad Spea labreae

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ZeroCool@piefed.ca to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago
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For the first time, researchers have discovered a new species of extinct amphibian from Ice Age Los Angeles at La Brea Tar Pits: a spadefoot toad they have named Spea labreae. Only one other extinct Pleistocene amphibian from North America has ever been found (a tree frog from Florida).
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    A species of Ice Age toad newly discovered at La Brea Tar Pits: The spadefoot toad Spea labreae

    unless the toad recently evolved in the tar

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      Life, uh, finds a way.

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