Show fross frogs reveal the earth s past from them scientist has learned of lost Contin continents entis and vanished seas baenish of a long ago ultra far west when the frogs croak you can well imagine with scientific backing that you hear the nature songs of lost continents and vanished seas of the past years for in a new kind of frog geography the records of these lost places have been found in living frogs by maynard AI metcalf of the national museum nis ilia studies are an almost unique method of reading the earths past lie ile has haa published the first report in the official journal science the frog map shows the possible existence of a great continent in the Paci pacific in triassic times years ago this was land some evidences of which fists have found previously by other methods probably connected with south america another lost frog continent was Le murla it likewise was about years back but in the indian ocean it appears to have connected africa madagascar ceylon southernmost india the islands of southwest Mayl asia asla and probably some of the southwestern malay archipelago islands then the frogs show an ultra far west vest this was a strip of land west of the present pacific coast of the united states it ran from siberia down past alaska central america and perhaps even for a time maynard finds to ecuador and chile its heyday was to years ago in this same cretaceous times there probably much texas instead the frogs indicate an arm of the sea there running up from the western gulf of mexico all the way into the arctic ocean Ff finally nally years ago byrd apparently might have walked to little america from south america australia or africa as he chose seemingly then there was an extended antarctica connecting with all three continents the usual method of reconstructing the past is through skeletons of animals but the frogs left too few bones maynard gets his frog map from the commens als of these animals A Is one who dines at the same board with another or others in human society some bommen als are honored positions but in frogs they are just plain parasites these studied by mr metcalf are the intestinal commens als the family A remarkable family too it has developed species in the rog these species are the clews to the frogs roga geographical migrations lie ile swim the oceans there had blid to be land to account for all the places he has gono the bommen show where these places were by the changes they underwent and while dining with the frogs |