Show frogs reveal the earths earth s pa past st from them scientist has learned of lost continents continent and vanished seas furnish information of a long lon ago ultra far west when the frogs croak you can well imagine with scientific backing that you near bear 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 II 11 metcalf of the national museum ills studies are arc an almost unique method of reading the earths past ile he has published the first report in the official journal science the frog map shows the possible existence of a great continent in the raci pacific fic in triassic Tr lassic times years tears ago this was land some evidences of which scientists have found previously by other methods probably connected with south america another lost frog continent was Ler ouria it likewise was about years back but in the indian andla ocean it appears to have connected africa madagascar ceylon southernmost india the islands of southwest Mayl asla and probably some of the southwestern malay archipelago islands then the frogs show an ultra far west this was a strip of I 1 land and 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 may inard card finds duds to ecil ecuador ador 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 finally years ago byrd apparently might have walked to little america from south america australia or africa as he chose seemingly then there was tin an extended antarctica connecting witt 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 othra ora in human society some bommen are honored positions but in frogs they are just plain parasites these studied by sir mr metcalf are the intestinal commens als the family A remarkable family too it has developed species in the frog these species are the clews to the frogs graphical geographical beit migrations lie ho swim the oceans there had to be land to account for all the places he has gone the bommen show where here these places were by the changes they underwent and evolved while dining with the frogs |