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).
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
Life, uh, finds a way.