BOMBAY, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- It resembles a purple doughnut, but with arms and legs, and scientists believe it may be a new species of frog -- perhaps the oldest ever found.
The Sydney Daily Telegraph said the newly discovered species, which once may have hopped under the feet of dinosaurs, is a relative of burrowing frogs found in Australia.
The new species, described as looking like a lump of gelatin, is believed to belong to a previously unknown branch of frog that dates back more than 130 million years. That was around the time that India and Madagascar broke away from the giant landmass, known as Gondwana, of which Australia was a part for another 70 million years.
Biologists from India and Belgium made the discovery, which was published Wednesday in the international science journal Nature.
The frog -- named Nasikabatrachus, which is Sanskrit for "frog with a nose" -- was found in the Western Ghats Mountains of Southern India.
