A 40 million-year-old frog fossil has revealed that cold-blooded frogs once inhabited a warm Antarctica.
The specimen, discovered in 2015 by Swedish vertebrate paleontologist Dr. Thomas Mörs, is most likely related to a species currently living in South America.
Mörs, who is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History, announced the find Thursday in the journal "Nature's" Scientific Reports.
The research team had retrieved the frog at some point between 2011 and 2013 during an expedition to Seymour Island, which sits on the Antarctic Peninsula roughly 700 miles south of Tierra Del Fuego on South America.
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