A tropical frog from Burmese amber

[Halichoeres]

That Burmese amber again! Meet Electrorana limoae, the earliest frog known from a wet tropical forest (an environment that doesn't tend to preserve anything well in the usual way, let alone articulated specimens of tiny animals like frogs).



Paper (open access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26848-w

[Mini Minmi]

Wow! Amber is such a cool material that it allows us to look straight into the past like this. Amber fossils tend to be rare (are they rarer than other types?) but man they keep such details...

[Libraraptor]

Incredible!  What a fantastic piece!