March 5, 2011

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST:

Frogs Evolve Teeth—Again (Christine Dell'Amore, 2/10/11, National Geographic News)

Lower-jaw teeth in frogs re-evolved after an absence of 200 million years, a new study says. The discovery challenges a "cornerstone" of evolutionary thinking, according to experts. [...]

The discovery runs counter to a principle called Dollo's law, which states that physical structures lost during evolution are never regained, according to Wiens, an evolutionary biologist at Stony Brook University in New York State.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 5, 2011 1:13 PM
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