Frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years, according to new research led by University College Cork. Falk et al. show that the geometry of melanosomes in the eyespots of fossil frogs from the Miocene and Eocene is similar to that of ocular melanosomes in living frogs. Image credit: Falk et al., doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220. In the study, the authors studied 45-million-year-old frog fossils from the paleontological site of...
