[Rockhounds] A Cretaceous frog with eggs found in northwestern China

[Paul]

Ancient frog had a belly full of eggs in oldest fossil discovery
of its kind. This unusual frog fossil seems to be an amphibian that
died in the process of mating by Matthew Rozsa, Salon February 9, 2024
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/09/ancient-frog-makes-history-when-scientists-discover-eggs-in-its-belly/

The open access paper is:

Baoxia Du, Jing Zhang, Raúl Orencio Gómez, Liping Dong,
Mingzhen Zhang, Xiangtong Lei , Aijing Li,  and Shuang Dai,
2024, A cretaceous frog with egg from northwestern China
provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal
maturity in anurans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
Biological Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2320
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2320

Yours,

Paul