An artistic impression of the newly discovered frog species (right) and a previously described species (left), both from Murgon. Image: Samantha Yabsley.

Secret to tree frog adaptability may lie in 50 million-year-old fossils, say palaeontologists

A drawing of the newly-discovered frog species which lived near the time Australia was joined to South America. Image: Samantha Yabsley. The fossils of a prehistoric Australian tree frog may yield clues to help modern ‘descendents’ survive another climate crisis, palaeontologists believe. A UNSW palaeontology team says the fossils of an unknown tree frog species…