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Possible 25 Million Year Old Frog Found
dispatch writes "A small frog, found preserved in amber, has been found by researchers in Mexico City. The frog, according to the scientists, may be some 25 million years old! According to the article: 'The chunk of amber containing the 0.4-inch frog was uncovered by a miner in southern Chiapas states in 2005 and was bought by a private collector, who lent it to scientists for study.' Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though the scientists will be allowed to drill into the rock, at the owner's request."
The owner sounds like a real toad.
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How can this news help us reach our spiritual destinies?
... the hole they drill enables the owner to put it on a chain and carry around his neck?
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Everyone knows you need a mosquito to resurrect the Dinosaurs. Whoever heard of a blood sucking frog?!
I want my bloody Dinosaurs!
* Stamps feet, puts hands on hits and pouts *
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.. but usually mosquitoes instead of frogs. I saw a documentary about extracting the blood they ate and making clones of the animals it belongs to. All I remember is to stand still and you will be fine.
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They'll just wait until he croaks.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Does it taste like chicken?
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...although Kermit might qualify. However, if they find a Transylvanian vampire duck with a penchant for carrot-juice preserved in amber, they'd damn well better get the DNA, whatever the owner says.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
but i think in this case, the fiction that is jeff goldblum and sam neil going 60 mph in a jeep and scared out of their wits by what they are being chased by has a lot more going for it than the reality of a 0.4 inch frog
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Now we just need to find prehistoric tires with frog impresions on it.
Kudos to the scientist. From the photo I would have called it a grasshopper. Anyways, this is very cool news. If the owner (or future owner) allows scientists to drill in and get a small sample of DNA we'll be able to link it to a modern variety of frog and perhaps other animals; and it will be an amazing lineage of how DNA gets morphed over time to adapt to the environment. I'll need to do some searching to see how the frog's environment differs from 25 million years ago to now.
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'jurassicpark'
Never have I said "this frog is 25 million years old" in a terrified manner.
Mitch Hedberg
The Earth is only 6,000 years old, so this ancient frog must be from another planet!
This is obvious science propaganda. Everybody knows that God created the world in the creation week, I mean on monday sometimes 6000 years ago, perhaps in the sunny afternoon after some good lunch.
There are a lot of interesting non-invasive techniques that can be used to analyze the frog for now. Sure no DNA but the frog has made it 25 million years, I'm sure the DNA isn't going to get much worse in the next thousand years or so.
Right now DNA technology is in its infancy. Eventually someone who inherits or buys the frog will let the more advanced DNA technology of the day at the frog and we will find out about it then.
Nothing is being lost we just need a bit of patience.
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..to be kissed and to be turned into a princess.
I hope someone gives it that much chance.
The best planning can be done after the project completes.
This frog is undoubtedly very talented and has a great voice.
Half inch~! That is one tiny ass frog.
However, he expressed doubt that the stone's owner would allow researchers to drill a small hole into the chunk of amber. "I don't think he will allow it, because it's a very rare, unique piece," said Carbot.
Oh my god losers, they didn't even ask him, they just say "oh well I don't think he'll accept".
it doesn't seem as though the scientists will be allowed to drill into the rock, at the owner's request.
I love the smell of a misleading summary in the morning.
You just got troll'd!
25 million years old?! That's preposterous! Come now, we all know the earth is only 6,000 years old.
One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
There are worse things one can find fossilized near Mexico City.
Surprisingly, "The Black Scorpion" had special effects from O'Brien and not Harryhausen.
All glory to the Hypnofrog!
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"Mmmmmm... Prehistoric"
Check out the 3D pics at http://digimorph.org/. Once that is done, and no relevant information was found, one might proceed to persuade the owner. To take a destructive step first is just unnecessary.
(...or they could just ask nicely.)
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The big question is, is it a crunchy frog, or might it just be some sort of mock frog?
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"Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though the scientists will be allowed to drill into the rock, at the owner's request."
Well just drill in anyway, replace the frog with an animal cracker and hope he don't notice.
Also - Jurassic Croak. Groan
These are found quite often.
If you found a frog in most products you'd be disgusted. Here it's a good thing. Anyone know who does their PR?
Reduce, reuse, cycle
They should call it the "Dick Clark" toad.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Get with the program people. A frog in amber is soooooooo much less tasty than scorpions in lollipops http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&acti on=product&pid=618&src_t=sbk&src_id=lollipop
Nothing witty
"You've found Nurhachi?"
then I'll be able to recreate the mosquito's that the frog ate.
My prehistoric mosquito park is going to be a resounding success.
... Is it... Is it dead?
It is dead, isn't it?
I can just see the ad line "Collectors item - pristine 25 Million year old frog, certified by the @@@@ Lab". From the looks of it, the collector got a bunch of scientists to do the marketing for him. Now that the interest will get built up, the value will go up. Also, he makes sure that there is enough value for the next buyer as well by ensuring they don't drill it up now.
Erm that really ought to read 25 million year old corpse of a frog or something. They got me real scared for a second ...
"A small frog, found preserved in amber..."
...Delicatessen :-D
I think that I'm with the owner. Genetic sequencing technology is still rapidly developing. Eventually, it will probably be possible to sequence the frog's entire genome in a few days from a small sample, so let's wait to drill.
It's at least 35 million years too young. Sorry, no dinosaur DNA in the mosquitoes it ate.
Now if you want to clone the frog itself, you can try, I guess, but I don't think "Look at our prehistoric frogs through a magnifying glass" is a good punch line. Maybe you'd have better luck with "At least they won't eat you alive"...
...wait, will they? They don't have teeth, do they?
Scientist: Frog could be 25 million years old
It could also be 35 million years old. Change the headline!
Who made up this 25-million year thing anyway, and why. It sounds to me like some sensationalist news reporter asked:
Reporter: Is it possible the frog is old.
Scientist: It is very like to be very old, considering it is preserved in amber.
Reporter: Could it be a million years old?
Scientist: Perhaps.
Reporter: How about a billion years old?
Scientist: That is less probable as frogs weren't around quite yet.
Reporter: Maybe one-hundred million years old?
Scientist: You may be pushing it.
Reporter: Then fifty?
Scientist: Listen, lower it to twenty-five and you can use my name. Now just pay me and get lost, the next reporter is coming in.
Reporter: "Scientist: Frog could be 25 million years old"
Have you read my journal today?
is it alive?!
Probably based on how deep in which layer it was discovered. Often times the 24 million year old stuff is on top of the 25 million year old stuff. :) I also think they can tell what type of tree the amber came from. For example, if the species of trees around producing amber 300 million years ago is different to the ones producing amber 25 million years ago and the ones producing amber fossils from 30 to 200 million years back didn't grow in that geographic area, etc.
Wait till the owner dies, then buy it off the estate.
The frog isn't going anywhere.
Have the French been around for that long?
...Crunchy frog.
Yet another blow to creationism as the world is once again confirmed to be more than 6,000 years old.
Prehistoric stuff encapsulated in amber:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4BQqbyYaQ
The difference between Slashdot and Fark is right now I would be posting a picture of the Crazy Frog.
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Please! Let's get our ancient Eurocentric fable memes right.
... to be kissed and the world will be shocked to find there's an older prince than Charles.
... to be kissed by Diana, who is currently unavailable.
And you should have said
-or-
Not that I would say either of those things, which would be in poor taste.
sigs, as if you care.
Straight out of the classic Looney Tunes cartoon... Michigan J. Frog!
"Hello! ma baby, Hello! Ma honey, Hello! ma ragtime gal."
etc etc.
they want their frog back
This is clear proof that the French founded civilization.
if I looking for frog him name is hopkin green frog I lost my frog P.S. I'll find my frog Who took my frog Who found my frog
It's a good job lasers hadn't been invented twenty five zillion years ago, or we'd be in the shit right now.
Hello, my baby!
Hello, my honey!
Hello, my ragtime gal...