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Re: Fossil Frog Unearthed in North Korea
>North Korea Unearths Frog Fossil
>4/18/94
>
> TOKYO (Reuter) - North Korean archaeologists have discovered
>the fossil of a frog which lived about 150 million years ago,
>the country's official news agency said on Monday.
> The remains were found at Sinuiju, a northwestern city near
>the border with China, the Korean Central News Agency reported.
> The discovery was in the same stratum where an archaeopteryx
>(fossil bird) of the early Jurassic period was unearthed in
>1993, said an agency report monitored in Tokyo.
Typical of new media in any country, this statement is loaded with errors.
The bird they refer to is Sinornis, and is of Early CRETACEOUS age.
Thomas R. HOLTZ
Vertebrate Paleontologist, Dept. of Geology
Email:Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
Phone:301-405-4084