Frogs help Irish scientists make leap in reconstructing the appearance of extinct animals

Irish scientists have made a giant leap in the reconstruction of the appearance of extinct animals - thanks to fossilised frogs.

In what University College Cork describes as a world-first, two UCC palaeontologists have discovered a new way to recreate the anatomy of ancient vertebrate animals by analysing the chemistry of tiny fossilised sub-cell units in the internal organs of the extinct fossilised animals.