Re: Amphibians â the comeback kings of evolution

[Andreas Johansson <andreasj@gmail.com>]

On 1/9/07, Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote:
> Dann Pigdon writes:
>  > ...The work revealed that todayï1rys amphibians have three common
>  > ancestors [...]
>
> _Three_ common ancestor?!
>
>  > Another two booms happened around the Cretaceous-Tertiary
>  > extinction, about 65 million years ago. In total, approximately 86%
>  > of frog species alive today and more than 81% of salamander species
>  > descend from just five amphibian species that survived this mass
>  > extinction 65 million years ago...
>
> OK, I am genuinely perplexed here: what did the _other_ 14% of extant
> frogs evolve from, if not K/T-survivor frogs?


I took it to mean the rest come from other lineages of survivors that
have failed to radiate much since.


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Andreas Johansson

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