A misidentified museum fossil has revealed Jeanerpeton mazonensis, a distinct amphibian ancestor that lived near present-day Chicago 309 million years ago. Jeanerpeton mazonensis, an early ancestor of modern amphibians, looked like a salamander with the squat, chubby build of a frog. Its fossil had been sitting in the Field Museum’s collection under another animal’s name [...] 
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