The first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found
An ancient amphibian sheds light on when the continent iced over
![Seymour Island landscape](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/042120_MT_frog_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
A 40-million-year-old frog fossil from Seymour Island (pictured) near the Antarctic Peninsula is the first evidence that amphibians like those alive today once inhabited Antarctica.
Federico Degrange/Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Jonas Hagström/Swedish Museum of Natural History